ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,114, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hot-dip plated steel material" was invented by Takuya Mitsunobu (Tokyo), Kohei Tokuda (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Takebayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hot-dip plated steel material includes a steel material and a hot-dip plated layer disposed on a surface of the steel material, the hot-dip plated layer has a certain chemical composition, and the hot-dip plated layer has a diffraction intensity obtained from a result of X-ray diffraction measurement, the diffraction intensity satisfying a certain relationship."
The patent was filed on March 23, 2023, under ...