ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,910, issued on July 21, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Molten metal bath composition analysis system, molten metal bath composition analysis method, hot-dip galvanizing bath management method, and hot-dip galvanized steel sheet manufacturing method" was invented by Michihiro Aimoto (Tokyo), Norihiro Tsuji (Tokyo), Tomonori Aoki (Tokyo), Hideki Nishimura (Tokyo), Naohiro Kodani (Tokyo), Hiroki Takamaru (Tokyo) and Takeshi Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molten metal bath composition analysis system includes: a laser oscillator that oscillates a laser beam; a cylindrical probe that includes an opening end i...