US Patent Issued to Voestalpine Stahl on March 31 for "Method for producing hardened steel components with a conditioned zinc anti-corrosive layer" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,346, issued on March 31, was assigned to Voestalpine Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Method for producing hardened steel components with a conditioned zinc anti-corrosive layer" was invented by Ernst Schachinger (Linz, Austria) and Martin Fleischanderl (Rainbach i.M., Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing hardened steel components is provided. A sheet bar is cut from a galvanized strip made of a hardenable steel alloy. The sheet bar is cold-formed into a component blank and heated to a temperature that produces a structural change to austenite. The austenitized component blank is conveyed to a form hardening too...