ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,779, issued on July 21, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steel sheet, coated steel sheet, press-formed product, processed member, method for manufacturing press-formed product, and method for manufacturing processed member" was invented by Kentaro Hata (Tokyo), Minako Morimoto (Tokyo), Shinji Otsuka (Tokyo) and Shusaku Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A member that is a press-formed product formed from a high strength steel sheet, and a coated steel sheet including a high strength steel sheet as a substrate, are disclosed. The steel sheet includes an outer coating disposed on a surface, and the outer coating incl...