US Patent Issued to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe on Sept. 8 for "Method for modifying finished surfaces with the aim of improved surface properties" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,414, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany).

"Method for modifying finished surfaces with the aim of improved surface properties" was invented by Fabian Junge (Wesel, Germany), Vanessa Husien Said (Dortmund, Germany), Robin Dohr (Voerde, Germany) and Burak William Cetinkaya (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a semifinished product with modified surface, comprising at least one method step of at least regionally modifying the surface of a coated, skin-pass-rolled, oiled, cleaned metallic steel substrate via low-pressure...