ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,106, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and annealing separator application line" was invented by Hiroi Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Takashi Terashima (Tokyo) and Makoto Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having uniform and good coating properties and magnetic properties throughout the length and/or width of the steel sheet. The method comprises: subjecting a steel slab to hot rolling, to cold rolling once or twice or more with intermediate annealing therebetween, and to prima...