ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,866, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PAUL WURTH S.A. (Luxembourg) and PAUL WURTH DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Wiesbaden, Germany).
"Grate bar for a pelletizing or sintering machine" was invented by Andrej Schulakow-Klass (Wiesbaden, Germany), Mirko Muller (Bad Nauheim, Germany) and Georg Struber (Frisange, Luxembourg).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grate bar for mounting in arrays of adjacent grate bars in a pallet car of a sintering or pelletizing machine includes an elongate crossbeam extending in a longitudinal direction of a horizontal plane, with a middle section between two opposite end sections. The crossbeam has a generally rectangula...