ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,041, issued on May 19, was assigned to Arconic Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).
"Methods of cooling an electrically conductive sheet during transverse flux induction heat treatment" was invented by James Wiswall (Pittsburgh), John A. Anderson (San Antonio), Ming M. Li (Murrysville, Pa.) and Gavin F. Wyatt-Mair (Lafayette, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention, in some embodiments, is a method the includes obtaining a sheet of a non-ferrous alloys as feedstock having a first edge and a second edge, heating the feedstock using a transverse flux induction heating system to form a heat treated product and concomitant w...