US Patent Issued to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA on March 18 for "Device for the inductive heating of a workpiece in a rolling mill" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,476, issued on March 18, was assigned to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBH (Austria).

"Device for the inductive heating of a workpiece in a rolling mill" was invented by Heinz Furst (Gallneukirchen, Austria), Thomas Lengauer (WeiBkirchen a.d. Traun, Austria), Bernd Linzer (Leombach, Austria) and Michael Zahedi (St. Marien, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (1) for inductive heating of a workpiece (2) in a rolling mill, the device (1) including: a converter (3) for creating an alternating voltage, a capacitor bank (6) electrically connected to the converter (3), and having a plurality of capacitors (7) connected in pa...