ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,058, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).
"Hot formed pre-coated steel part" 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 hot formed pre-coated steel part includes a steel sheet precoated with a metallic coating and hot formed, 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 eleme...