ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,926, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Surface treatment method of aluminum material" was invented by Jinju Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Cheolhee Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdeog Koh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangjoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of treating a surface of an aluminum material, the method including: degreasing an aluminum material; etching the degreased aluminum material; performing a first desmutting treatment by immersing the etched aluminum material in a 25-35 wt...