MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617092029 A) filed by Primetals Technologies Austria; and Voestalpine Stahl Gmbh on July 29, 2026, for Characterisation Of A Smelting Process.

Inventors include Staudinger, Clemens; Tauber, Christian; Bettinger, Dieter; Feilmayr, Christoph; Krahwinkler, Petra; Lumetzberger, Wolfgang; Schaler, Martin; and Schuster, Stefan.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method (100) and a system (10) for characterising a smelting process in a blast furnace (3), to a smelting plant (1) and to a method (200; 300) for machine learning of models (16; 24) which can b...