ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,647, issued on May 27, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).

"Steel sheet and high strength press hardened steel part having excellent bending and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Alice Dumont (Le Ban St Martin, France), Guillaume Stechmann (Marly, France), Emmanuel Lucas (Metz, France) and Matthieu Salib (Maizieres-les-Metz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel sheet having a chemical composition including in wt % C: 0.2-0.4%, Mn: 0.8-2.0%, Si: 0.1-0.5%, Al: 0.01-0.1%, Ti: 0.01-0.1%, B: 0.0005-0.005%, Pless than equal to0.040%, Caless than equal to0.01%, Sless than equal to0.006%, Nless than equal to0...