ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,588, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pre-coated plated steel sheet and molded product" was invented by Takashi Fujii (Tokyo), Hiroyasu Furukawa (Tokyo), Yuki Yamamura (Tokyo), Fumio Shibao (Tokyo), Kohei Ueda (Tokyo), Akira Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Naoto Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To more securely inhibit the occurrence of paint film floating even when drawing is performed by using a Zn-Al-Mg-based alloy plated steel sheet as a base sheet.A pre-coated plated steel sheet according to the present invention includes: a plating layer composed of Zn-Al-Mg-based alloy plating, the plating lay...