ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,099, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).

"Cold rolled and coated steel sheet and a method of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Hyun Jo Jun (Clinton, N.J.), Narayan Pottore (Munster, Ind.), Dongwei Fan (Munster, Ind.), Xiang Chen (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Oleg Yakubovsky (Las Cruces, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold rolled and coated steel sheet having a composition including of the following elements, expressed in percentage by weight: 0.140%less than equal toCarbonless than equal to0.2%, 1.5%less than equal toManganeseless than equal to2.15%, 0.5%less than equal toSiliconless than equal to0.8%,...