ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,419, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Plated steel sheet" was invented by Takuya Mitsunobu (Tokyo), Masaaki Uranaka (Tokyo), Kotaro Ishii (Tokyo) and Kohei Tokuda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The plated steel sheet comprises: a steel sheet; and a plated layer arranged on a surface of the steel sheet, wherein the plated layer comprises, as a chemical composition, Al: 10.0% to 25.0%, Mg: 3.0% to 10.0%, Fe: 0.01% to 2.00%, Si: more than 0.00% and 2.00% or less, and a remainder comprising Zn and impurities, and when the plated layer is subjected to grazing incidence X-ray diffraction measurement unde...