ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,886, issued on July 8, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).
"Coated steel sheet" was invented by Tiago Machado Amorim (Longeville les Metz, France), Christian Allely (Metz, France), Raisa Grigorieva (Metz, France) and David Dussaussois (Homecourt, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-coated steel sheet includes a steel sheet precoated with a metallic coating, the coating including: 2.0 to 24.0% by weight of zinc; 1.1 to 7.0% by weight of silicon; optionally from 0.5 to 3.0% by weight of magnesium when the amount of silicon is between 1.1 and 4.0%, and optionally additional elements chosen from Pb, Ni, Zr or Hf, a content...