US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on July 15 for "Structural member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,333, issued on July 15, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Structural member" was invented by Ryoma Kato (Tokyo), Ryo Tabata (Tokyo) and Takeshi Kawachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a structural member comprising an edge portion T1 and an edge portion T2 opposing the edge portion T1 in plan view in height direction (Z axis direction); when an axis direction connecting the edge portion T1 and the edge portion T2 is regarded as an X axis direction, the structural member includes, along the X axis direction, a region A including the edge portion T1, and a region B located on the edge po...