US Patent Issued to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, JFE Steel on Aug. 4 for "High strength, cold rolled steel with reduced sensitivity to hydrogen embrittlement and method for the manufacture thereof" (Japanese, German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,544, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany) and JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"High strength, cold rolled steel with reduced sensitivity to hydrogen embrittlement and method for the manufacture thereof" was invented by Richard G. Thiessen (Malden, Netherlands), Manuela Irnich (Rheinberg, Germany), Nicholas Winzer (Dusseldorf, Germany), Shigehiro Takajo (Tokyo), Lingling Yang (Tokyo) and Yuki Toji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high strength, cold rolled steel flat product, and a method of its manufacture, with reduced sensitivity to hydrogen embrittlement including a steel substrate whic...