US Patent Issued to voestapline Stahl on March 25 for "Method for producing thermo-mechanically produced profiled hot-rolled strip products" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,648, issued on March 25, was assigned to voestapline Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Method for producing thermo-mechanically produced profiled 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: "A method for producing thermomechanically produced hot strip products having improved mechanical properties is provided. A steel alloy is melted and adjusted so that a recrystallization during hot rolling at greater than 800deg C. is suppressed. The melted steel alloy is cast into slab ingots and after being heated to a temperature above Ac3, the slab...