ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,251, issued on June 24, was assigned to POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Steel plate surface material property testing device and steel plate surface material property testing method" was invented by Ju-Seung Lee (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea) and Seong-Ung Koh (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The steel plate material property testing device determining a material property of a surface of the steel plate by generating the eddy current in the steel plate includes: an eddy current tester disposed so as to face the steel plate; and a frame to which the eddy current tester is fixed, in which the eddy current...