ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,196, issued on March 24, was assigned to WHEEL Corp. (Asan-si, South Korea).
"Highly corrosion-resistant aluminum alloy" was invented by Tae Seung Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a highly corrosion-resistant aluminum alloy including one or more components selected from among 0.1 wt. % or less (except for 0 wt. %) of Cu, 0.15 wt. % or less (except for 0 wt. %) of Si, 0.2 wt. % or less (except for 0 wt. %) of Fe, 0.9 to 1.5 wt. % of Mn, 0.03 to 0.15 wt. % of Ti, 0.03 to 0.15 wt. % of Cr, and 0.03 to 0.15 wt. % of Zr, and the remaining proportion of aluminum (Al) and unavoidable impurities. The highly...