US Patent Issued to Hyundai Steel on June 23 for "Hot stamping component and manufacturing method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,713, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hyundai Steel Co. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Hot stamping component and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Min Ho Jang (Incheon, South Korea) and Kun Woo Chang (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot stamping component according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a steel sheet, a plating layer located on the steel sheet and including Zn, and a surface layer located on the plating layer, wherein the surface layer includes a post-treatment layer including an Si-based inorganic post-treatment agent, a Zn oxide layer located on a same layer as the post-...