ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,896, issued on July 21, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Dehydrogenation method for steel material and steel product, and production method for steel material and steel product" was invented by Junya Tobata (Tokyo), Kazuki Endoh (Tokyo) and Yuki Toji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a dehydrogenation method capable of efficiently reducing hydrogen content in steel for thick or complexly-shaped steel materials and steel products in general. In a dehydrogenation method for a steel material, in a series of steel material production process including: a process of supplying a steel raw material; a process of sub...