MUMBAI, India, April 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517025154 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on March 20, for 'cut-and-proceeds product, and guardrail.'

Inventor(s) include Hayashida, Takahide.

The application for the patent was published on April 11, under issue no. 15/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided is a cut article of a Zn-Al-Mg-plated steel material having a base steel material and a Zn-Al-Mg plating layer covering the surface of the base steel material, wherein a cut end surface of the cut article is coated with a linear film in which components of the Zn-Al-Mg plating layer flow in a linear fashion, the percentage of the c...