ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,326, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to METSO METALS OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Metallurgical furnace" was invented by Kari Pienimaki (Espoo, Finland), Harri Talvensaari (Nummela, Finland), Jouko Kangas (Nurmijarvi, Finland), Kaarle Peltoniemi (Espoo, Finland) and Paivi Suikkanen (Pori, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metallurgical furnace including a hearth, a sidewall structure, and a surrounding cooling element structure including cooling elements. Each cooling element have a planar back surface. A surrounding binding structure including binding sections surrounds partly the surrounding surface. Adjacent binding sections of th...