ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,144, issued on July 14, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH (Austria).

"Energy-efficient production of a ferritic hot-rolled strip in an integrated casting-rolling plant" was invented by Heinz Furst (Gallneukirchen, Austria), Simon Grosseiber (Leonding, Austria), Thomas Lengauer (WeiBkirchen a.d. Traun, Austria) and Michael Zahedi (St. Marien, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy-efficient production of a ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) in an integrated casting-rolling plant (1), which modifies the known processes for producing a ferritic hot-rolled strip (6) in an integrated casting-rolling plant (1) so that t...