ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,541, issued on April 7, was assigned to TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V. (Velsen-Noord, Netherlands).

"Hot dip coating device and method" was invented by Jeroen Martijn Link (Bakkum, Netherlands), Jaap Peter Van Eenennaam (Heiloo, Netherlands), Nico Noort (Heemskerk, Netherlands), Eduard Antonie Hermanus Van Den Heuvel (Santpoort-Zuid, Netherlands) and Nanda Sintia Mandagi (Maarssen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot dip coating device to provide a metal coating on a moving metal sheet, containing a liquid bath of metal coating material in use. The metal coating material on the moving metal sheet in use, including ...