US Patent Issued to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties on Oct. 27 for "Steel tube as reinforcement for vehicle structure" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,034, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties Inc..

"Steel tube as reinforcement for vehicle structure" was invented by Miao Yu (Northville, Mich.), Sobhan T. Nazari (Novi, Mich.), Jimmy J. Zhang (Troy, Mich.), Panagiotis Makrygiannis (Windsor, Canada), Feng Zhu (LaSalle, Canada), Sajan G. Elengikal (Novi, Mich.), Jun Hu (Liberty Township, Ohio), Erik Russel Anderson (Maumee, Ohio), Scott Stevens (Macomb, Mich.) and Yu-Wei Wang (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocker panel for use in a vehicle, the rocker panel includes an outboard plate, an inboard plate, and a reinforcement struc...