ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,666, issued on March 25, was assigned to KANSAI HELIOS AUSTRIA GMBH (Vienna).

"Aqueous composition for coating grain-oriented steel" was invented by Marek Machno (Vienna), Johann Schellenberg (Baden, Austria), Gerhard Typpelt (Vienna), Karl Rametsteiner (Linz, Austria) and Christian Breitwieser (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present patent application relates to an aqueous composition for coating grain oriented steel, comprising aluminium cations, manganese cations, dihydrogen phosphate, hydrogen phosphate and/or phosphate anions, colloidal silica and optionally iron cations, wherein the aluminium cations, expressed as A...