US Patent Issued to POSCO on July 21 for "High strength thin steel material for API having excellent resistance to deformation and method of manufacturing same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,898, issued on July 21, was assigned to POSCO Co. LTD (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"High strength thin steel material for API having excellent resistance to deformation and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Jin-You Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention provides a high strength thin steel material for API having excellent resistance to deformation and a method of manufacturing same, the steel material comprising, in weight %, C: 0.05-0.15%, Si: 0.5% or less (0% excluded), Mn: 0.5-2.5%, Nb: 0.05% or less (0% excluded), V: 0.004% or less (0% excluded), Mo: 0.03-0.2%, C...