ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,387, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).
"Method for dip-coating a metal strip" was invented by Angel Garcia Martino (Asturias, Spain) and Inocencio Garcia-Chapa (Asturias, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Equipment for the continuous hot dip-coating of a metal strip 9 including an annealing furnace, a tank 2 containing a liquid metal bath 3, a snout connecting the annealing furnace and tank 2, through which the metal strip 9 runs in a protective atmosphere and the lower part of the snout, the sabot 5, is at least partly immersed in the liquid metal bath 3 in order to define with the surface of the bath, ...