ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,254, issued on May 20, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Steel sheet for cans and method of producing same" was invented by Nobusuke Kariya (Tokyo), Fusae Shiimori (Tokyo), Katsumi Kojima (Tokyo) and Daisuke Otani (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a steel sheet for cans with high strength and sufficiently high formability particularly as a material for a can body with a neck portion. The steel sheet for cans of the present disclosure has a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.010% to 0.130%, Si: 0.04% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 1.00%, P: 0.007% to 0.100%, S: 0.0005% to 0.0090%, Al: 0.001% to 0.100%, N: ...