ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,319, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fe-based electroplated steel sheet, electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, automotive part, method of producing electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, and method of producing Fe-based electroplated steel sheet" was invented by Shunsuke Yamamoto (Tokyo), Katsutoshi Takashima (Tokyo), Mai Aoyama (Tokyo), Yusuke Okumura (Tokyo), Tomomi Kanazawa (Tokyo), Katsuya Hoshino (Tokyo), Hiroshi Matsuda (Tokyo), Ei Okumura (Tokyo), Yoichi Makimizu (Tokyo) and Masaki Koba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistanc...