US Patent Issued to Primetals Technologies Austria on Feb. 17 for "Casting-rolling integrated plant for producing a hot-rolled finished strip from a steel melt" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,943, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH (Austria).

"Casting-rolling integrated plant for producing a hot-rolled finished strip from a steel melt" was invented by Simon Grosseiber (Leonding, Austria), Thomas Lengauer (WeiBkirchen a.d. Traun, Austria), Bernd Linzer (Leombach, Austria), Gero Schwarz (Attnang, Austria), Roman Winkler (Altenberg, Austria) and Michael Zahedi (St. Marien, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casting-rolling integrated plant that is capable of producing, from a steel melt, in a cost-effective manner and with high productivity, a hot-rolled finished strip having a thick...