US Patent Issued to POSCO on Jan. 20 for "Method of manufacturing hot press-formed member having excellent productivity, weldability and formability" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,111, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Method of manufacturing hot press-formed member having excellent productivity, weldability and formability" was invented by Hong Gee Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Hyun Sung Son (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An method of manufacturing a hot press-formed member comprises heating a blank of an aluminum-based plated steel sheet in a heating furnace, removing the heated blank from the heating furnace and conveying the removed blank between an upper mold portion and a lower mold portion of a mold, mounted on a press, to be seated; and performin...