US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Aug. 25 for "Highly corrosion-resistant stainless steel component and method of manufacturing same, method of heat-treating stainless steel component, and rolling bearing and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,109, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Highly corrosion-resistant stainless steel component and method of manufacturing same, method of heat-treating stainless steel component, and rolling bearing and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Syota Taneda (Nagano, Japan) and Keiki Maeno (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a highly corrosion-resistant stainless steel component made of martensitic stainless steel achieving both high corrosion resistance and high hardness without containing ferrite at a surface layer portion. The highly corrosion-resistant stainless steel...