ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,502, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ECM TECHNOLOGIES (Grenoble, France).
"Gas quenching cell" was invented by Stephane Ravet (Grenoble, France) and Gerard Tissot (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a gas cooling cell, comprising: a chamber; at least one opening in the chamber, of access to a treatment space internal to the chamber; at least one door for closing the opening; and a system (4), internal to the chamber, comprising at least one wall (42) mobile between a first position where this wall forms a screen between the opening and the treatment space, and a second position where s...