US Patent Issued to POSCO on March 4 for "Wear resistant steel material with excellent cut crack resistance and method of manufacturing same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,138, issued on March 4, was assigned to POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Wear resistant steel material with excellent cut crack resistance and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Seng-Ho Yu (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Nam-Young Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear resistant steel material has high hardness and excellent cut crack reistance, that can be applied to a thick steel material of which the thickness is 60 mm or more, that is not cracked even after being cut using gas, and a method of manufacturing the wear resistant steel material provides high hardness and excellent cut crack resistance."...