ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,517, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ironovation Materials Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).
"Steel for hot stamping, hot stamping process and hot stamped component" was invented by Hongliang Yi (Liaoning, China), Dapeng Yang (Liaoning, China), Xiaochuan Xiong (Jiangsu, China) and Guodong Wang (Liaoning, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steel for hot stamping, a hot stamping process and a hot stamped component, in which the steel for hot stamping contains in weight percentage C: 0.2-0.4%, Si: 0-0.8%, Al: 0-1.0%, B: 0-0.005%, Mn: 0.5-3.0%, Mo: 0-1%, Cr: 0-2%, Ni: 0-5%, V: 0-0.4%, Nb: 0-0.2%, Ti: less than equal to0.01%, and ...