ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,019, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH (Germany).

"Rolling taking frequency behavior into account" was invented by Matthias Dressler (Erlangen, Germany), Daniel Kotzian (Forchheim, Germany), Martin Schonherr (Forchheim, Germany) and Srdan Sekulic (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll stand of a rolling mill is supplied with a metal strip by an upstream supply device at an in-feed speed (v), with said metal strip being rolled in the roll stand. A measuring device between the supply device and the roll stand detects a respective thickness value (d) of the metal strip for consecutive...