ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,138, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Tin-plated steel sheet and can" was invented by Shintaro Yamanaka (Tokyo), Makoto Kawabata (Tokyo), Hiroaki Ando (Tokyo), Yasuhiko Sato (Tokyo), Koichi Noguchi (Tokyo) and Akihiro Jinno (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a tin-plated steel sheet which is more excellent in yellowing resistance in a steel sheet for containers having a film layer containing zirconium without being subjected to a conventional chromate treatment. A tin-plated steel sheet is adopted which has a steel sheet, a tin plating layer located on at least one surface of the steel sh...