US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on Jan. 20 for "High-strength galvanized steel sheet and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,131, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"High-strength galvanized steel sheet and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Kazuki Endoh (Tokyo), Yoshiyasu Kawasaki (Tokyo), Yuki Toji (Tokyo), Yoshimasa Funakawa (Tokyo) and Mai Aoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-strength galvanized steel sheet is disclosed which has a specified chemical composition, has a steel microstructure including, in terms of area fraction, 35% or more and 80% or less of ferrite, 0.1% or more and less than 5.0% of as-quenched martensite, 3.0% or more and 35% or less of tempered martensite, and 8% or more of ret...