ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,040, issued on April 15, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China) and SICHUAN JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Sichuan, China).

"Single crystal furnace charging system and charging method" was invented by Ziyang Ou (Jiangxi, China), Yin Tang (Jiangxi, China), Bo Xiong (Jiangxi, China) and Peng Xiang (Jiangxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The single crystal furnace charging system includes a control system configured to send a charging request, a material preparation system configured to receive the charging request and prepare materials based on the charging request, a feeding system configured to receive the charging reques...