US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Oct. 20 for "Steel sheet and method of production of same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,003, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steel sheet and method of production of same" was invented by Kengo Takeda (Tokyo) and Katsuya Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel sheet excellent in energy absorption at the time of crushing deformation, that is, steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and steel microstructure which has on the sheet surface a plurality of step differences having height differences of more than 5.0 micro metre at intervals of 2.0 mm or less."

The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2022, under Application No. 18/284,036.

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