US Patent Issued to BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL on May 13 for "Method for plugging/unplugging probe of metallurgical automatic sublance" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,116, issued on May 13, was assigned to BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method for plugging/unplugging probe of metallurgical automatic sublance" was invented by Xitao Song (Shanghai), Ruimin Wu (Shanghai) and Zhenhong Wei (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention is a method for plugging/unplugging a probe of a metallurgical automatic sublance. A laser distance sensor is mounted on an end-effector of a drive device; the drive device drives the laser distance sensor to scan the automatic sublance according to setting areas; position and orientation information of the automatic sublance is c...