US Patent Issued to Primetals Technologies USA on May 20 for "Method of automating and optimizing coil formation in a wire rod line cooling conveyor" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,965, issued on May 20, was assigned to Primetals Technologies USA LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Method of automating and optimizing coil formation in a wire rod line cooling conveyor" was invented by Matthew D. Palfreman (Charlton, Mass.), Jason Zelle (Worcester, Mass.) and Margaret Gentile (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for automating and optimizing coil formation in a wire rod cooling conveyor comprising: (a) a speed measuring device (e.g., a laser velocometer) measuring a speed of a material entering a laying head; (b) a processor that: (1) receives, as input, the speed measured in (a), (2) compu...