US Patent Issued to FIVES STEIN on March 4 for "Device and method for controlling a reheating furnace" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,685, issued on March 4, was assigned to FIVES STEIN (France).

"Device and method for controlling a reheating furnace" was invented by Yee Yuen Chan (Maisons-Alfort, France) and Jean-Luc Magalhaes (Boissy-sans-Avoir, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a furnace for reheating iron and steel products, comprising forming an infrared image, using an infrared camera, of an upper face of a product over the width and at least partially over the length thereof when said product is arranged on a predetermined discharging surface; digital processing comprising binarization of the infrared image into two classes of pi...