ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,651, issued on March 17, was assigned to THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG (Duisburg, Germany).
"Flat steel product having an improved zinc coating" was invented by Stefan Bienholz (Bochum, Germany), Sebastian Stille (Dortmund, Germany), Stefan Krebs (Dortmund, Germany), Luis Fernando Piedra-Garza (Essen, Germany) and Bernd Schuhmacher (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flat steel product includes a steel substrate having an anticorrosion coating present at least on one side of the steel substrate and made of zinc or a zinc alloy. This anticorrosion coating, on the surface remote from the steel substrate, has zinc nanocr...