US Patent Issued to VOESTALPINE STAHL on Feb. 17 for "Actuator for a casting mold for producing metal components" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,944, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VOESTALPINE STAHL GMBH (Linz, Austria).

"Actuator for a casting mold for producing metal components" was invented by Federico Garcia-Bragado (Dusseldorf, Germany), Ernst Neunteufl (Branau, Austria), Simon Frank (Neuhofen im Innkreis, Austria) and Stefan Gneiger (Weistrach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator for a casting mold for producing a metal component has at least two electrodes in contact with the metal melt for generating a local, pulsing electric field in a metal melt present in the casting mold and for introducing a pulsing current into the metal melt."

The patent was...