ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,938, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH (Germany).
"Cooling device with coolant jets having a hollow cross section" was invented by Thomas Matschullat (Eckental, Germany) and Klaus Weinzierl (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cooling device with coolant jets having a hollow cross section. A treatment line for a flat, elongate, hot rolling stock made of metal has a finishing train for rolling the rolling stock and a cooling device. The cooling device can, as required, be located upstream or downstream of the finishing train or within the finishing train. Th...