MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517014608 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on Feb. 20, for 'hot-rolled steel sheet.'

Inventor(s) include Hiroshima Hideto; Shuto Hiroshi; Kobayashi Yukiko; and Tsutsui Kazumasa.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This hot-rolled steel sheet has a desired chemical composition; the metal structure of this hot-rolled steel sheet at a position where the depth from the surface is 1/4 in the sheet thickness direction comprises, in area%, less than 3.0% of residual austenite, not less than 15.0% but less than 60.0% of ferr...