US Patent Issued to Cleveland-Cliffs on July 28 for "Low alloy third generation advanced high strength steel and process for making" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,584, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (Cleveland).

"Low alloy third generation advanced high strength steel and process for making" was invented by Luis Gonzalo Garza-Martinez (Wyoming, Ohio) and Erik James Pavlina (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prior third generation advanced high strength steels can produce ingots and hot bands that have a tendency to develop cracks. It has been found that an addition to third generation advanced high strength steels of one or more of molybdenum in an amount up to 0.50 wt % and nickel in an amount up to 1.5 wt %, eliminates the cracks in ingots, and improves t...