ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,323, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Taiyuan, China).

"Methods and devices for predicting roller gaps in non-steady-state processes" was invented by Yuanming Liu (Taiyuan, China), Yiyang Zhang (Taiyuan, China), Zhenhua Wang (Taiyuan, China), Shuangchi Li (Taiyuan, China), Yaxing Liu (Taiyuan, China), Yipu Liu (Taiyuan, China), Dongping He (Taiyuan, China) and Tao Wang (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and a device for predicting a roller gap in a non-steady-state process. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of first rolling parameters; dividing, based on...