ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,544, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany).
"Method for producing a surface-treated and surface-conditioned steel sheet" was invented by Fabian Junge (Dusseldorf, Germany), Burak William Cetinkaya (Dortmund, Germany) and Jennifer Schulz (Unna, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for producing a surface-treated and surface-finished sheet steel. A sheet steel having a zinc-based coating is provided, wherein zinc grains are distributed within the coating. The surface-treated sheet steel are skin-pass rolled to form embossed regions and unembosse...