US Patent Issued to Novelis Koblenz on May 5 for "Method of manufacturing an aluminium alloy rolled product" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,131, issued on May 5, was assigned to Novelis Koblenz GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Method of manufacturing an aluminium alloy rolled product" was invented by Philippe Meyer (Agnetz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method of manufacturing an aluminium alloy rolled product of a heat-treatable aluminium alloy, comprising: semi-continuous casting a heat-treatable aluminium alloy into a rolling ingot; homogenizing of the rolling ingot to a peak metal temperature (PMT) and whereby said aluminium alloy has a specific energy associated with a DSC signal less than 2J/g in absolute value; hot rolling of the rolling ingot...