ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,429, issued on March 31, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Method for automated pass schedule calculation in radial forging" was invented by Frederik Knauf (Nideggen-Abenden, Germany) and Martin Wolfgarten (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic calculation of a pass schedule in the radial forging of steel tubes in a radial forging machine is disclosed. The forging machine includes at least four forging tools arranged around the circumference of the workpiece, which are set up and adapted for synchronous forging operation over at least a partial length of the workpiece and/or the t...