ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,771, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Plated steel" was invented by Takuya Mitsunobu (Tokyo), Hiroshi Takebayashi (Tokyo) and Takehiro Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This plated steel includes: a steel; and a plating layer formed on the steel, in which the plating layer contains, as a chemical composition, by mass %, Zn: 1.0% to 30.0%, Mg: 0% to 10.0%, Si: 0.05% to 10.0%, Fe: 0 to 10.0%, 0% to 5.00% in total of one or two or more selected from Ca: 0% to 3.00%, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, Pb: 0% to 0.50%, Sr: 0% to 0.50%, Sn: 0% to 1.00%, Cu: 0% to 1.00%, Ti: 0% to 1.00%, Ni: 0% to 1.00%, Mn: 0% to...