US Patent Issued to SMS Group on June 17 for "Continuously operable production plant and method for operating the production plant when there is a fault" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,196, issued on June 17, was assigned to SMS Group GmbH (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Continuously operable production plant and method for operating the production plant when there is a fault" was invented by Christoph Klein (Kreuztal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the case of a production plant which comprises in series a thin-slab continuous casting plant (1), which is arranged upstream of a roller hearth furnace (2), the roller hearth furnace (2) and a rolling mill (3), which is arranged downstream of the roller hearth furnace (2) and has an assigned reeling plant (21), wherein the continuous casting plant (1) and the rolli...