ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,647, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Metal material corrosion loss mapping method, metal material selection method, and metal material corrosion loss mapping apparatus" was invented by Masataka Omoda (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Nakatsuji (Tokyo), Daisuke Mizuno (Tokyo) and Shinji Ootsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal material corrosion loss mapping method includes creating a corrosion loss prediction map by using corrosion loss data including a use period of a metal material, a plurality of environmental parameters, position coordinates of the environmental parameters on a map, topographical data of...