ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,691, issued on May 26, was assigned to CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH (Biesheim, France) and CONSTELLIUM MUSCLE SHOALS LLC (Muscle Shoals, Ala.).
"Method and equipment for cooling on a reversing hot rolling mill" was invented by Vincent Duhoux (Coublevie, France), Gilles Guiglionda (Seyssinet-pariset, France), Romain-Fabrice Bernes (Issoire, France), Bruno Magnin (Saint-Aupre, France), Erin Deda (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Xavier Unterfinger (Colmar, France), John M. Evans (Muscle Shoals, Ala.) and Trevor Gilmore (Waterloo, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a hot reversing mill equipped with one or more cooling systems co...