ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,964, issued on April 7, was assigned to TMT TAPPING MEASURING TECHNOLOGY SARL (Rue d'Alsace, Luxembourg).
"Oxygen lance guiding assembly" was invented by Max Zuang (Dudelange, Luxembourg) and Romain Clesen (Colpach-Haut, Luxembourg).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an oxygen lance guiding assembly having an oxygen lance feeding device, which is disposed on a tap hole drilling unit. The tap hole drilling unit has a drilling rod guiding device for a drilling rod, which is driven by a drilling mechanism, on a receptacle configured to have the drilling mechanism disposed thereon. The oxygen lance feeding device is d...