US Patent Issued to LINDE on March 24 for "Method for connecting ferritic with austenitic steel pipes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,052, issued on March 24, was assigned to LINDE GMBH (Pullach, Germany).

"Method for connecting ferritic with austenitic steel pipes" was invented by Reinhold Holzl (Pullach, Germany), Matthias Grundwurmer (Pullach, Germany), Thomas Englert (Pullach, Germany) and Josef-Andreas Pollmann (Pullach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of connecting an austenitic steel pipe with a ferritic steel pipe. The method comprises providing the austenitic steel pipe and the ferritic steel pipe, such that an inner end section of the austenitic steel pipe has an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of an outer sectio...