US Patent Issued to FIVES STEIN on Nov. 11 for "Device and method for heat treatment of steels, including a wet cooling" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,114, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FIVES STEIN (France).

"Device and method for heat treatment of steels, including a wet cooling" was invented by Sebastien Lemaire (Maisons-Alfort, France) and Patrice Sedmak (Maisons-Alfort, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for removing residues present on a metal strip at the outlet of a cooling stage of a continuous line, the residues being formed during a cooling of said metal strip by a non-oxidizing liquid solution for the metal strip and a stripping liquid solution for the oxides present on the surface of the strip, or by a mixture of this liquid sol...