ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,653, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Clecim SAS (Savigneux, France).
"Installation for coating a longitudinally-running strip-shaped metal product" was invented by Laurent Cloutot (Killwangen, Switzerland), Lionel Goiset (Montbrison, France) and Benjamin Grenier (Saint-Paul-en-Jarez, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation for coating a longitudinally-running, strip-shaped metal product includes a tank containing a coating in liquid form, into which the metal product is dipped, a wiping system disposed at a vertical outlet of the product from the tank and intended to wipe each face of the strip-shaped product, at least...