US Patent Issued to Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche, Danieli Automation on March 4 for "Method and apparatus to control and adjust the drawing action in a rolling mill, and corresponding rolling mill" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,024, issued on March 4, was assigned to Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A. (Buttrio, Italy) and Danieli Automation S.P.A. (Buttrio, Italy).

"Method and apparatus to control and adjust the drawing action in a rolling mill, and corresponding rolling mill" was invented by Andrea Venuti (Gemona del Friuli, Italy) and Marco Conti (Via Nazionale, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus to control and adjust the drawing action in a rolling mill provided with rolling stands through which a product passes. A video monitoring system acquires frames of the product; a processing system that processes the frames and defines a normal r...