ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,370, issued on May 13, was assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany).
"Method for marking a steel strip, and steel strip with a plurality of markers" was invented by Wolfram Weber (Dinslaken, Germany), Lothar Patberg (Moers, Germany), Daniel Overloper (Duisburg, Germany) and Thorsten Grunendick (Mulheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel strip with a plurality of markers and a method for marking a steel strip with material properties is provided. The method comprises measuring material properties of the steel strip at a plurality of discrete strip positions. A plurality of markers are applie...