US Patent Issued to SMS group on Feb. 25 for "Device and method by which the process control, in particular temperature control, of a metal product passed through along a single running-through line is flexibly influenced by means of at least two adjacent segments" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,046, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Device and method by which the process control, in particular temperature control, of a metal product passed through along a single running-through line is flexibly influenced by means of at least two adjacent segments" was invented by Joachim Hafer (Siegen, Germany), Matthias Peters (Kreuztal, Germany) and Kilian Kaupper (Recklinghausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method are described by which the process control, in particular temperature control, of a metal product passed through along a single running-through line is flexibly...