US Patent Issued to Voestalpine Stahl on July 1 for "Method for producing hardened steel components with a conditioned zinc alloy anti-corrosive layer" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,914, issued on July 1, was assigned to Voestalpine Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Method for producing hardened steel components with a conditioned zinc alloy anti-corrosive layer" was invented by Ernst Schachinger (Linz, Austria) and Martin Fleischanderl (Rainbach i.M., Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing hardened steel components is provided. Sheet bars are cut out from an alloy-galvanized strip made of a hardenable steel alloy and the sheet bars are heated to a temperature that produces a structural change to austenite, preferably to a temperature above the respective Ac3 point. The austenitized sheet bars a...