ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,755, issued on March 18, was assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany).
"Process for manufacturing a flat steel product having an aluminum-based corrosion-resistant coating, and flat steel product having an aluminum-based corrosion-resistant coating" was invented by Janko Banik (Altena, Germany), Dirk Rosenstock (Essen, Germany) and Axel Ralf Schrooten (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing a flat steel product having a prealloyed corrosion-resistant coating, comprises providing a coated flat steel product comprising a steel substrate having, at least on one side of the steel...