ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,005, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hot-dip plated steel material" was invented by Kohei Tokuda (Tokyo), Mamoru Saito (Tokyo), Yasuto Goto (Tokyo) and Fumiaki Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-dip plated steel material has a plating layer on a surface of a steel material, in which the plating layer contains Al: more than 22.5% and 50.0% or less, Mg: more than 3.0% and 15.0% or less, Ca: 0.03 to 0.6%, Si: 0.03 to 1.0%, Fe: 2 to 25%, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, and, in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plating layer, measured under conditions in which...