ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,119, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing hot-rolled steel sheet for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method of producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet" was invented by Masanori Takenaka (Tokyo), Minoru Takashima (Tokyo) and Yukihiro Matsubara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing a hot-rolled steel sheet for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. The method comprising: preparing a steel slab having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.002% or more and 0.080% or less, Si: 2.00% or more and 8.00% or less, Mn: 0.02% or more an...