US Patent Issued to NEXTER MUNITIONS, UNIVERSITE DE BOURGOGNE on April 14 for "Steel having high mechanical properties and manufacturing process thereof" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,037, issued on April 14, was assigned to NEXTER MUNITIONS (Versailles, France) and UNIVERSITE DE BOURGOGNE (Dijon, France).

"Steel having high mechanical properties and manufacturing process thereof" was invented by Arnaud Bolsonella (Bourges, France), Herve Couque (Bourges, France) and Frederic Bernard (Bourges, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel having high mechanical properties, characterized in that it has the following composition by weight: 12% to 25% Nickel; 7.4% to 20% Cobalt; 3% to 11% Molybdenum; 0.2% to 2.21% addition elements, the remainder being iron, the structure of the material including a combination of f...