ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,816, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FIVES STEIN (France).
"Rapid cooling of high yield strength sheet steel" was invented by Catherine Pasquinet (Maisons-Alfort, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for reducing unevenness in a strip subjected to cooling by spraying of liquid, or a mixture of gas and liquid, along a cooling zone of a continuous heat treatment one, the cooling intensity being adjusted in the direction of travel of the strip so as to achieve a relative position between the Leidenfrost temperature and at least one temperature at which the metallurgical structure changes such that said cooling intensity minim...