ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,889, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN B.V. (Velsen-Noord, Netherlands).
"Heat treatment of 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 method of heat treating a high strength cold rolled steel strip including 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 range; such that the...