ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,380, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ALUDIUM TRANSFORMACION DE PRODUCTOS S.L.U. (Amorebieta-Etxano, Spain).
"Method for protecting a metal during annealing processes and metal product obtained" was invented by Segundo Antonio Sanchez Martinez (Alicante, Spain), Mario Allet (Alicante, Spain) and Christiane Huber (Alicante, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting a metal during an annealing process, the metal being in the form of a coil or sheets, including placing a protective film between adjacent surfaces of the wraps of the coil or of the sheets, such that the protective film separates the adjacent surfaces of...