ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,366, issued on March 11, was assigned to CISDI Research & Development Co. Ltd. (Chongqing, China).

"Intermediate blank connection system for hot-rolled strip headless rolling and connection method" was invented by Aimin Gao (Chongqing, China), Huiquan Han (Chongqing, China), Wanhui Wang (Chongqing, China) and Min Zhou (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an intermediate blank connection system for hot-rolled strip headless rolling and a connection method, and belongs to the technical field of intermediate blank connection for strip steel headless rolling. The connection system and the con...