US Patent Issued to MECORAD on Sept. 23 for "Method and device for the contactless determination of at least one property of an at least partially melted endless strand" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,382, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MECORAD GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Method and device for the contactless determination of at least one property of an at least partially melted endless strand" was invented by Andreas Heutz (Bornheim, Germany), Cagdas Cunhur Unluer (Essen, Germany) and Marc Banaszak (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for contactless determination of at least one property of an at least partially melted quasi-endless strand during a casting process of the quasi-endless strand, which cools down within a cooling zone, allowing successive hardening of the ...