US Patent Issued to TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN on Feb. 3 for "Heat treatment of high strength cold rolled steel strip" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,366, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN B.V. (Velsen-Noord, Netherlands).

"Heat treatment of high strength cold rolled steel strip" was invented by Shangping Chen (Beverwijk, Netherlands), Richard Mostert (Heemskerk, Netherlands), Maxim Peter Aarnts (Castricum, Netherlands) and Stefanus Matheus Cornelis Van Bohemen (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat treatment of a high strength cold rolled steel strip includes the steps of a) soaking a cold rolled steel strip, b) cooling the soaked steel strip c) heat treating the cooled strip; d) cooling the heat treated steel strip to ambient temperature ra...