US Patent Issued to Primetals Technologies Austria on Oct. 14 for "Reduction of surface defects during finish rolling of hot strip" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,878, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Reduction of surface defects during finish rolling of hot strip" was invented by Heinz Furst (Gallneukirchen, Austria), Franz Hermann Glaser (Haid bei Ansfelden, Austria), Simon Grosseiber (Leonding, Austria), Slaven Ilic (Linz, Austria), Lukas Preuler (Randegg, Austria), Juergen Schiefer (Allhaming, Austria) and Christian Strasser (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a finishing train for finish rolling hot strip. It is the object of the invention to modify an existing finishing train in such a way that the...