ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,794, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hyundai Steel Co. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Hot stamping component and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Jae Myoung Park (Incheon, South Korea), Je Youl Kong (Incheon, South Korea), Kye Jeong Park (Incheon, South Korea) and Seung Chae Yoon (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a hot stamping component, the method includes inserting a blank into a heating furnace, heating the blank, and transferring the heated blank from the heating furnace to a mold, wherein an air cooling time of the blank in the transferri...