ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,514, issued on May 13, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).

"High strength hot rolled steel having excellent scale adhesivness and a method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Eva Diaz Gonzalez (Deinze, Belgium), Lieven Bracke (Sinaai, Belgium), Tom Waterschoot (Lokeren, Belgium) and Joost Destrycker (Zele, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot rolled steel product having a composition including in percentage by weight: 0.06%less than equal toCless than equal to0.18%, 0.01%less than equal toNiless than equal to0.6%, 0.001%less than equal toCuless than equal to2%, 0.001%less than equal toCrless than equal to2%, 0....