ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,439, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resin film-laminated metal sheet and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Nobuo Kadowaki (Tokyo), Kazushi Iwakiri (Tokyo), Tomohiro Mizutani (Tokyo), Daisuke Yasufuku (Tokyo), Tomoya Hara (Tokyo), Satoshi Kato (Tokyo), Yuta Tajima (Tokyo) and Yuki Nagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin film-laminated metal sheet includes a metal sheet and thermoplastic resin films that are fused to both surfaces of the metal sheet, the metal sheet is a steel sheet having a thickness of 0.08 mm or more or an aluminum sheet having a thickness of 0.15 mm or more, a...