US Patent Issued to POSCO on July 21 for "Ferritic stainless steel having improved corrosion resistance, and method for manufacturing same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,900, issued on July 21, was assigned to POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Ferritic stainless steel having improved corrosion resistance, and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Jin-suk Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Junghyun Kong (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Mun-soo Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a ferritic stainless steel having improved corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing same. The ferritic stainless steel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, in percent by weight (wt %), 0.001 to 0.05% of C, 0.001 to 0.05% of N, 0.1 to 1.0% of Si, 0.1 to 1....