US Patent Issued to Hyundai Steel on March 17 for "Aluminum-coated blank, manufacturing method thereof and apparatus for manufacturing aluminum-coated blank" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,459, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Steel Co. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Aluminum-coated blank, manufacturing method thereof and apparatus for manufacturing aluminum-coated blank" was invented by Chang Yong Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Jeong Seok Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Sung Ryul Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Tae Woo Kwon (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an aluminum-coated blank, a manufacturing method thereof, and an apparatus for manufacturing the same. The blank includes two or more aluminum-coated steel sheets connected together by a joint, each of the steel sheets including: a ba...