ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,501, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hot-dip plated steel sheet" was invented by Tetsuya Toba (Tokyo), Yasuaki Kawamura (Tokyo), Jun Nakagawa (Tokyo), Shintaro Uemura (Tokyo) and Tomohito Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-dip plated steel sheet includes a hot-dip plated layer formed on a surface of a steel sheet, the hot-dip plated layer contains 4 to 22 mass % of Al and 1.0 to 10 mass % of Mg with a remainder including Zn and impurities. A pattern portion and a non-pattern portion are formed in the hot-dip plated layer. An element concentrated region containing an element M and an in...