US Patent Issued to Nucor on Oct. 21 for "Application of a learning agent to achieve autonomous operation of a twin roll casting machine" (Indiana, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,525, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nucor Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Application of a learning agent to achieve autonomous operation of a twin roll casting machine" was invented by Neera Jain Sundaram (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jianqi Ruan (West Lafayette, Ind.), George T.C. Chiu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Ivan Parkes (Madison, Ala.) and Walter N Blejde (Brownsburg, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A twin roll casting system comprises a pair of counter-rotating casting rolls having a nip between the casting rolls and capable of delivering cast strip downwardly from the nip; a casting roll controller configured to adjust at least one ...