US Patent Issued to VOESTALPINE STAHL, TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE NV/SA on Nov. 3 for "High strength cold rolled steel sheet for automotive use having excellent global formability and bending property" (Austrian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,325, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOESTALPINE STAHL GMBH (Linz, Austria) and TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE NV/SA (Brussels).

"High strength cold rolled steel sheet for automotive use having excellent global formability and bending property" was invented by Michael Schwarzenbrunner (Walding, Austria), Edip Ozer Arman (Zaventem, Belgium) and Thomas Hebesberger (Pasching, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high strength cold rolled steel sheet has a composition consisting of the following elements (in wt. %): C 0.08-0.14, Mn 2.5-3.0, Si 0.7-1.1, Cr 0.05-0.4, optionally Alless than equal to0.2, Nbless than equal to0.1, Moless than equal ...