ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,369, issued on June 17, was assigned to VOESTALPINE STAHL GMBH (Linz, Austria).
"Method for producing conventionally hot-rolled profiled 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 hot-rolled hot strip products in which a steel alloy is melted; the melted steel alloy is cast into slab ingots and after being heat-ed to a temperature above Ac3, the slab ingots are hot rolled until they reach a desired degree of deformation and a desired strip thickness; the rolling is performed above the recrystalli...