US Patent Issued to voestalpine Stahl on Jan. 20 for "Method for producing thermo-mechanically produced hot-rolled strip products" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,128, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to voestalpine Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Method for producing thermo-mechanically produced hot-rolled strip products" was invented by Wolfgang Ernst (Linz, Austria) and Helmut Spindler (Oed-Ohling, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing thermomechanically produced hot strip products in which a steel alloy is melted; the steel alloy is adjusted so that a recrystallization during the hot rolling is suppressed; the final rolling temperature is greater than 800deg C.; the melted steel alloy is cast into slab ingots and after being heated to a temperat...