US Patent Issued to ArcelorMittal on Feb. 3 for "Method for producing a precoated steel sheet and associated sheet" (Canadian, Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,562, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).

"Method for producing a precoated steel sheet and associated sheet" was invented by Quentin Bernardi (Paris), Tuan A. Mai (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Nicolaas Van Der Borght (Herent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a precoated steel sheet (1) includes providing a precoated steel strip comprising a steel substrate carrying, on at least one of its faces, a precoating. The precoating includes an intermetallic alloy layer and a metallic alloy layer extending atop the intermetallic alloy layer. The metallic alloy layer is a layer of aluminum, a...