US Patent Issued to BORCELIK CELIK SAN. TIC. A. S. on Dec. 2 for "Process for improving characteristics of galvanized surfaces" (Turkish, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,578, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BORCELIK CELIK SAN. TIC. A. S. (Bursa, Turkey).

"Process for improving characteristics of galvanized surfaces" was invented by Derya Tabak (Bursa, Turkey), Aydin Ersoy (Bursa, Hungary), Mehmet Gul (Bursa, Turkey) and Mehmet Koroglu (Bursa, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of surface treatments that provide additional characteristics to the surfaces of galvanized steel materials is provided. A chromate-free coating material is applied after texturing on the surface of the galvanizing steel material and obtaining the roughness values. The resulting galvanized steel material provides a...