ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,407, issued on May 12, was assigned to TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN B.V. (Velsen-Noord, Netherlands).

"Method of manufacturing a steel strip and coated steel sheet obtainable thereby" was invented by Guido Cornelis Hensen (Haarlem, Netherlands), Roel Marinus Maria Mallens (Beverwijk, Netherlands), Freek Sluis (Haarlem, Netherlands), Jean-Paul Gravemaker (Umuiden, Netherlands) and Edgar Matthijs Toose (Hoofddorp, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method manufacturing a steel strip, including the subsequent steps of hot rolling the strip into a hot rolled strip, cold rolling the hot rolled strip and hot dip coating the cold rolled str...