US Patent Issued to INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES on Feb. 18 for "Cold crucible" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,340, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE (Grenoble, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

"Cold crucible" was invented by Kader Zaidat (Saint Martin d'Heres, France), Christian Garnier (Eybens, France) and Ghatfan Hasan (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold crucible usable in the field of high-temperature production of monocrystalline materials. The cold crucible includes: a cold cage which has sectors made of a material having good electrical conductivity and in which a charge is melte...