ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,921, issued on June 10, was assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany).
"Method for manufacturing a sheet metal component from a flat steel product provided with a corrosion protection coating" was invented by Maria Koyer (Dortmund, Germany), Manuela Ruthenberg (Dortmund, Germany), Janko Banik (Altena, Germany) and Ulrich Etzold (Kerken, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a sheet metal component including: annealing a flat steel product comprising 0.05-0.5% C, 0.5-3% Mn, 0.06-1.7% Si, less than equal to0.06% P, less than equal to0.01% S, less than equal to1.0% Al, less than equal to0.1...