US Patent Issued to voestalpine Stahl on Oct. 7 for "Steel material and method for its manufacture" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,381, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to voestalpine Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Steel material and method for its manufacture" was invented by Florian Gerstner (Aalen, Germany), Andreas Sommer (Abtsgmund, Germany), Siegfried Kolnberger (Pasching, Austria) and Thomas Kurz (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method relates to a press-hardened component with a tensile strength Rmless than1600 MPa, in particular less than1800 MPa, and especially less than2000 MPa, wherein the component is manufactured from a steel material, wherein the steel material is a boron-manganese steel, which has a carbon content less than0.30 mass %...