ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,268, issued on May 12, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH (Germany).
"Measuring the flatness of rolling trains for aluminium" was invented by Jose Claudio Blanco De Souza (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rolling stand for rolling a hot aluminium strip, having at the outlet side, in this order, a trimming device that cuts the metal strip from both sides such that only the remaining central region of the metal strip is fed to the downstream devices; a front deflection roller that deflects the metal strip away from a direct connecting line between the rolling stand the rear deflection roller; a measuri...