MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517089439 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on Sept. 19, for 'hot-rolling equipment and hot-rolling method.'

Inventor(s) include Aoki, Toshikazu; Niitani, Hiroshi; and Kihara, Yuki.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Hot-rolling equipment for hot-rolling a Cu-containing steel material, the hot-rolling equipment including: a heating furnace that heats the steel material, after casting, to a prescribed temperature; a rolling device that rolls the steel material heated in the heating furnace; a removal device that is prov...