ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,802, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Method for automated pass schedule calculation in radial forging" was invented by Frederik Knauf (Nideggen-Abenden, Germany) and Martin Wolfgarten (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radial forging of long products made of metal workpieces in a radial forging machine uses at least four forging tools arranged around the circumference of the workpiece, which are set up and adapted to simultaneously carry out the forging operation. An automatic pass schedule calculation includes entering start parameters for the radial forging process into a pass ...