US Patent Issued to TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN on July 15 for "Method for passivating a tinplate strip and apparatus for producing said passivated tinplate strip" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,337, issued on July 15, was assigned to TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN B.V. (Velsen-Noord, Netherlands).

"Method for passivating a tinplate strip and apparatus for producing said passivated tinplate strip" was invented by Michiel Steegh (Driehuis, Netherlands), Jan Paul Penning ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands) and Mark Willem Litz (Aerdenhout, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for passivating a tinplate strip after electrodepositing the tin layer or tin layers, or after an optional flow-melting of the electrodeposited tin layer or tin layers, and an apparatus for producing the passivated tinplate strip."

The patent was filed on M...