ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,525, issued on April 7, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing electrical steel sheet" was invented by Nobusato Morishige (Tokyo), Kazumi Mizukami (Tokyo) and Daisuke Itabashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new and improved method for producing electrical steel sheet enabling production of electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic characteristics and coating film adhesion, the method for producing electrical steel sheet containing a process of bringing an electrical steel sheet containing, by mass %, C: more than 0% and 0.10% or less, Si: 2.5% or more and 4.5% or less, Mn: 0.01% or more and 5.0%...