ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,107, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Method and control device for operating a strip treatment installation for processing a strip, in particular a metal strip or rolling material" was invented by Thomas Daube (Duisburg, Germany), Lutz Kummel (Juchen, Germany) and Holger Behrens (Erkrath, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal strip is guided on transportation rollers through a strip treatment installation. The installation includes successive strip movement control devices along a transportation direction. The strip movement control devices detect and adjust the position of the strip...