US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Jan. 13 for "Thermal protection methods using barrier coatings with strain tolerance grooves" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,163, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Thermal protection methods using barrier coatings with strain tolerance grooves" was invented by Jon C. Schaeffer (Greenville, S.C.) and Srikanth C. Kottilingam (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a component. The method includes applying a thermal barrier coating to the component to facilitate decreasing heat transfer to the component, wherein the thermal barrier coating includes at least one thermal insulating layer and a metallic bond coat layer in contact with an outer surface of the component. The method...