ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,089, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resin-coated metal sheet for container" was invented by Yuya Kawai (Tokyo), Junichi Kitagawa (Tokyo), Yasuhide Oshima (Tokyo) and Katsumi Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin-coated metal sheet for a container includes: a metal sheet; a first resin coating layer provided on an inner face of the metal sheet after forming; and a second resin coating layer provided on an outer face of the metal sheet after forming, wherein a polar component of surface free energy of the second resin coating layer is 3.5 mN/m or more, after the second resin coating layer is s...