US Patent Issued to Primetals Technologies Austria on June 3 for "Method for preventing shape changes in metal coils, in particualr for preventing a collapsing of newly wound hot coils" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,834, issued on June 3, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Method for preventing shape changes in metal coils, in particualr for preventing a collapsing of newly wound hot coils" was invented by Roland Hofer (Reichenau im Muehlkreis, Austria), Lukas Pichler (Linz, Austria), Christoph Salzmann (Linz, Austria), Alois Seilinger (Linz, Austria) and Olaf Silbermann (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for preventing shape changes in metal coils, in particular for preventing a collapsing of newly wound hot coils. In the method, a metal coil, in particular a newly w...