US Patent Issued to LONGI GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 30 for "Crystal growth control method and apparatus, and crystal growth device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,748, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LONGI GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shaanxi, Japan).

"Crystal growth control method and apparatus, and crystal growth device" was invented by Zhanjun Xu (Shaanxi, China), Rui Zhou (Shaanxi, China) and Qiao Li (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystal-growth controlling method and device, and a crystal growing apparatus, used for, in the process of growing a crystal by a pulling method, forming the crystal of the shape required by the cell side. The method includes: in a process of growing a crystal by the pulling method, acquiring a growth image of the crystal in real time,...