ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,053, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, and method for evaluating grain-oriented electrical steel sheet" was invented by Makoto Watanabe (Tokyo), Takashi Terashima (Tokyo) and Karin Kokufu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grain oriented electrical steel sheet has excellent insulation property and includes: a steel sheet; and a coating disposed on each of both surfaces of the steel sheet, wherein an interlaminar current value after a rubbing test is not more than 0.10 A, the rubbing test being conduct...