ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,415, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ALD VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hanau, Germany).
"Remelting plant for metals, and method for remelting metals" was invented by Ivaylo Popov (Hanau, Germany), Lothar Lippert (Alzenau, Germany), Stefan Lemke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Thomas Kilzer (Niedernberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to remelting plants, such as for example vacuum arc remelting furnaces (VLBO/VAR) and electro slag remelting plants (ESU/ESR), which possess one or several melting sites and have a portal structure. The plants possess a symmetric force distribution and a constantly l...