US Patent Issued to SMS group on Dec. 9 for "Method for the open-loop or closed-loop control of the temperature of a steel strip during hot working in a hot strip mill" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,442, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for the open-loop or closed-loop control of the temperature of a steel strip during hot working in a hot strip mill" was invented by Christoph Hassel (Duisburg, Germany), August Sprock (Dusseldorf, Germany), Kai Grybel (Siegen, Germany) and Guido Buschhoff (Hilchenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling or regulating the temperature of a steel strip in hot forming in a hot strip mill. A superordinate open-loop or closed-loop controller has a process model that predetermines the temperature development of the hot strip. Th...