US Patent Issued to SSAB TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 30 for "High strength steel product and method of manufacturing the same" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,690, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SSAB TECHNOLOGY AB (Stockholm).

"High strength steel product and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Vili Kesti (Raahe, Finland), Tommi Liimatainen (Raahe, Finland), Mikko Hemmila (Raahe, Finland), Pasi Suikkanen (Raahe, Finland), Erik Nymann (Borlange, Sweden), Martin Lind (Borlange, Sweden), Robin Nilsson (Borlange, Sweden) and Juha Pyykkonen (Raahe, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-rolled strip steel product having a chemical composition consisting of, in terms of weight percentages (wt. %): 0.025%-0.070% C, 0%-1.10% Si, 0.50%-2.0% Mn, greater than0.020% P, greate...