US Patent Issued to SMS group on April 14 for "Method and computer program product for calculating a pass schedule for a stable rolling process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,948, issued on April 14, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method and computer program product for calculating a pass schedule for a stable rolling process" was invented by Andreas Ritter (Haiger, Germany) and Rainer Merz (Kreuztal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a corresponding computer program product calculate a pass schedule for a stable rolling process when rolling metal strip in a rolling mill. The offset here is varied until the calculated target horizontal force satisfies a predefined limit criterion. The satisfaction of the limit criterion means that the set of rolls and the rolling...