ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,554, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of determining final annealing conditions for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method of producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet using method of determining thereof" was invented by Makoto Watanabe (Tokyo), Takashi Terashima (Tokyo) and Takuya Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In determining the conditions for final annealing, information on the concentration of enriched components over the entire length and width of the steel sheet after decarburization annealing is obtained, the optimum function of product properties in the relationsh...