ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,278, issued on May 12, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH (Austria).

"Method for producing a microalloyed steel, a microalloyed steel produced using the method, and a combined casting/rolling installation" was invented by Kerstin Baumgartner (Wartberg ob der Aist, Austria), Simon Grosseiber (Leonding, Austria), Thomas Lengauer (WeiBkirchen a.d. Traun, Austria) and Gero Schwarz (Attnang, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process that produces a microalloyed steel in an integrated casting-rolling plant having a continuous casting machine with a mold, a single- or multi-stand prerolling train, a finish-rolling tra...