ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,934, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL COATED SHEET Corp. (Tokyo).

"Metal plate coating material and coated metal plate production method using same" was invented by Keiko Takiguchi (Tokyo), Masaki Satou (Tokyo), Seiju Suzuki (Tokyo) and Takafumi Kawagoe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a metal plate coating material with which it is possible to form a coating film that has extremely high storage stability, that does not exhibit yellowing, and that is not prone to staining with rain streaks; and a method for producing a coated metal plate using the metal p...