US Patent Issued to SMS group on April 8 for "Modular rolling train, particularly hot rolling train, preferably in conjunction with an upstream casting facility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,080, issued on April 8, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Modular rolling train, particularly hot rolling train, preferably in conjunction with an upstream casting facility" was invented by Gokhan Erarslan (Dusseldorf, Germany), Jens Kreikemeier (Lennestadt, Germany), Joachim Hafer (Siegen, Germany) and Kerstin Spill (Netphen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular rolling train, particularly a hot rolling train, preferably in conjunction with an upstream casting facility, and a method for operating a modular rolling train are described. The rolling train is standardized and modularized by dividing the ...