ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,381, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AMAG ROLLING GMBH (Braunau am Inn- Ranshofen, Austria).

"Method for hardening a sheet or strip made of an aluminum alloy, and sheet or strip produced using said method" was invented by Ramona Tosone (Neukirchen an der Enknach, Austria), Florian Schmid (Graz, Austria), Stefan Pogatscher (Leoben, Austria) and Peter J. Uggowitzer (Ottenbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for hardening a sheet or strip made of an aluminum alloy of the 6xxx row and to a sheet or strip produced using said method. In order to accelerate the hardening method, a multistage th...