ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,248, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nihon Parkerizing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Metal surface-treating agent, and metal material with coating film and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Masaru Tokue (Tokyo), Yohei Otsu (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Iko (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a metal surface treatment agent which can form a film having excellent corrosion resistance and excellent hydrophilicity on or over a surface of a metal material; a method of producing a metal material having a film by using the metal surface treatment agent; and a metal material having a film...