US Patent Issued to CODELCOTEC SPA on Feb. 18 for "Measurement system for the phase level in a smelting furnace" (Chilean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,443, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CODELCOTEC SPA (Santiago, Chile).

"Measurement system for the phase level in a smelting furnace" was invented by Claudio Fuentes Weishaupt (Santiago, Chile), Leonel Contreras Rojas (Santiago, Chile) and Rodolfo Weishaupt Silva (Santiago, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application addresses a wireless system for the determination of the height of liquid or molten metal levels containing metal, shaft, matte or slag in smelting furnace. Specifically, it addresses a wireless system that allows, without the presence of cables, the sending and receiving of a signal outside of the smelting ...