US Patent Issued to DREVER INTERNATIONAL, John Cockerill on March 25 for "High-resistance steel strip comprising a temperature homogenisation chamber" (Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,649, issued on March 25, was assigned to DREVER INTERNATIONAL (Liege, Belgium) and John Cockerill SA (Seraing, Belgium).

"High-resistance steel strip comprising a temperature homogenisation chamber" was invented by Jean-Pierre Crutzen (Chaudfontaine, Belgium), Lutz Kummel (Juchen, Germany), Frank Maschler (Duisburg, Germany) and Michel Renard (Liege, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for thermally treating a scrolling steel strip (5), said method comprising the following steps: heating the strip (5) in a zone for heating with a direct flame (10); temperature homogenisation of the strip (5) in a homogenisation chamber (20...