US Patent Issued to voestalpine BOHLER Edelstahl on Sept. 23 for "Steel material in powder form and process for producing said steel material" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,581, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to voestalpine BOHLER Edelstahl GmbH & Co. KG (Kapfenberg, Austria).

"Steel material in powder form and process for producing said steel material" was invented by Christin Aumayr (Leoben, Austria) and Harald Leitner (Kindberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a steel material in powder form for printing in additive manufacturing methods such as selective laser melting (SLM) or selective laser sintering (SLS) or for use in hot isostatic pressing methods, wherein the material has the following composition: C 0.17-0.23 Si 0.10-0.80 Mn 0.15-0.45 Pless than equal to0.03...