MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517091968 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on Sept. 25, for 'surface-treated steel sheet.'

Inventor(s) include Kawamura, Yasuaki; Fujii, Takashi; Toshin, Kunihiko; Ueno, Shin; and Ueda, Daichi.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A surface-treated steel sheet having a galvanized steel sheet and a coating film that is disposed on at least one main surface of the galvanized steel sheet, the average film thickness of the coating film being 0.5-3 m, the coating film containing a binder resin and 0.5-2.0 mass% of a lubrican...