ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,548, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).
"Method for managing coating gloss on a coil-coating line" was invented by Fabrice Farina (Flemalle, Belgium), Jacky Mallegol (Villers le Temple, Belgium), Eric Silberberg (Haltinne, Belgium), Charles Hanquet (Liege, Belgium) and Thomas Defize (Eben-Emael, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing the gloss of an organic coating formed on a moving strip on a coil-coating line, the method including the steps of: 1) Setting a set gloss value Gs, a set gloss range Rs and a proportionality constant K of a predefined linear mathematical relation between...