ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,342, issued on March 31, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hot-pressed member, coated member, steel sheet for hot pressing, method for manufacturing hot-pressed member, and method for manufacturing coated member" was invented by Rinta Sato (Tokyo), Daisuke Mizuno (Tokyo), Minoru Tanaka (Tokyo) and Ryoto Nishiike (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-pressed member is disclosed including at least one surface that has a filtered centerline waviness Wca of less than or equal to 1.5 micro metre."
The patent was filed on Oct. 22, 2021, under Application No. 18/272,628.
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