ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,500, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Algoma Steel Inc. (Sault Sainte Marie, Canada).
"Method for producing light gauge steel" was invented by Kashif Rehman (Sault Sainte Marie, Canada) and John Naccarato (Sault Sainte Marie, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method is for use with a strip or plate of steel, the steel being of a composition and temperature suitable for heat treatment, and comprising the following steps: austenizing the strip or plate to produce austenitized material; quenching the austenized material to produce hardened steel; thermally tempering the hardened steel to produce tempered steel; and stretching ...