ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,120, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Process for the treatment of an optimised steel material" was invented by Aziz Chniouel (Cavaillon, France), Hicham Maskrot (Montlhery, France), Fernando Lomello (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Pierre-Francois Giroux (Antony, France) and Pascal Aubry (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for the treatment of a steel material, wherein the grains of which it is composed include a matrix into which precipitates are incorporated. The precipitates include at least one metallic element selected from a metallic element M, a met...