US Patent Issued to PROTERIAL on Oct. 21 for "Single crystal manufacturing method, single crystal manufacturing apparatus and crucible" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,701, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).

"Single crystal manufacturing method, single crystal manufacturing apparatus and crucible" was invented by Kenta Takao (Tokyo), Daiki Furukawa (Tokyo), Kenya Tanaka (Tokyo), Mai Abe (Tokyo), Takashi Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Toru Umeno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Miscellaneous crystals generated in a solution are reduced. A single crystal manufacturing method includes a first heating step of heating the solution so that a temperature of the solution in contact with a side surface of a crucible becomes higher than a temperature of the solution in contact with a botto...