US Patent Issued to CONSTELLIUM MUSCLE SOALS, CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH on Aug. 25 for "Strip made of 6XXX alloy and manufacturing process" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,121, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CONSTELLIUM MUSCLE SOALS LLC (Muscle Shoals, Ala.) and CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH (Biesheim, France).

"Strip made of 6XXX alloy and manufacturing process" was invented by Gilles Guiglionda (Seyssinet-Pariset, France), Michael Langille (Fontaine, France) and Jichao Li (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is an aluminum alloy strip having the composition Si: 1.00-1.50% %, Fe: greater than=0.30%, Mn: greater than=0.30%, Mg: 0.20%-0.44%, Cu: 0.80%-1.50%, Ti: 0.03%-0.15%, Cr: greater than=0.10%, Zn: greater than-0.10%. This strip has formability properties equivalent to that o...