US Patent Issued to Pallidus on June 17 for "SiC volumetric shapes and methods of forming boules" (New York, Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,948, issued on June 17, was assigned to Pallidus Inc. (Albany, N.Y.).

"SiC volumetric shapes and methods of forming boules" was invented by Douglas M Dukes (Troy, N.Y.), Glenn Sandgren (Ambler, Pa.), Andrew R Hopkins (Houston), Isabel Burlingham (Troy, N.Y.) and Mark S Land (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Volumetric shapes of SiC starting materials for boule growth. Methods of controlling vapor deposition growth of SiC boules, and providing directional flux. Methods of increase the number of wafers, the number of electronic components and the number of operable devices from a single boule growth cycle."

The patent was filed ...