ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,984, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany).
"Surface modification of a zinc-based metal coating in a hot-dip coating process" was invented by Fabian Junge (Wesel, Germany) and Burak William Centinkaya (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A striplike or sheetlike steel substrate is hot-dip-coated with a metallic coating based on zinc and has a modified surface. A method includes producing a semifinished product with modified surface. The method includes at least regionally modifying the surface of a coated, skin-pass-rolled, oiled and cleaned metallic steel substrate by an atm...