ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,433, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL STAINLESS STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ferritic stainless steel and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Yoshitomo Fujimura (Tokyo), Takahito Hamada (Tokyo) and Taichiro Mizoguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Realized is ferritic stainless steel which has excellent high-temperature strength and excellent red scale resistance. The ferritic stainless steel contains not more than 0.025% by mass of C, 0.05% by mass to 3.0% by mass of Si, 0.05% by mass to 2.0% by mass of Mn, not more than 0.04% by mass of P, not more than 0.03% by mass of S, not more than 0.5% by mass of Ni, 1...