US Patent Issued to PVA TePla on April 15 for "Crystal support and crystal growing plant having such a crystal support" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,042, issued on April 15, was assigned to PVA TePla AG (Wettenberg, Germany).

"Crystal support and crystal growing plant having such a crystal support" was invented by Hans-Juergen Ahlborn (Buseck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystal support for a crystal pulling system includes two catches that have a respective retaining jaw that is placeable against a thickened neck portion of a crystal. The two catches are moveable into a bearing position in which the two catches bear on the thickened neck portion and into a releasing position in which the two catches are away from the thickened neck portion. In the bearing position, r...