ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,385, issued on June 30, was assigned to HERAEUS ELECTRO-NITE INTERNATIONAL N.V. (Houthalen, Belgium).

"Method and system for determining a series of temperature values of a molten metal bath" was invented by Michel Van Vlierberghe (Houthalen, Belgium) and Guido Neyens (Houthalen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining a series of at least two temperature values of a molten metal bath with a device comprising an optical cored wire and a detector. The method according to the invention has been proven to be especially suitable for multiple repeated measurements, wher...