US Patent Issued to SK SILTRON on July 8 for "Ingot growing apparatus and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,939, issued on July 8, was assigned to SK SILTRON Co. LTD. (Gumi-si, South Korea).

"Ingot growing apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Hyun Woo Park (Gumi-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ingot growing apparatus is composed of a neck portion, a shoulder portion, a body portion, and a tail portion. The ingot growing apparatus comprises a memory configured to store an artificial neural network and a processor.The processor learns the artificial neural network to obtain a primary shoulder shape model corresponding to training data, updates the obtained primary shoulder shape model based on shoulder information o...