US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 8 for "Engine component with abradable material and treatment" (California, New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,306, issued on April 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Engine component with abradable material and treatment" was invented by Neelesh Sarawate (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephan Priebe (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Wojciech Sak (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine component with an abradable material and treatment is disclosed herein. An example engine component includes a substrate having a first thickness and defining at least a first substrate surface, the substrate extending along an axial direction, an abradable material on the first substrate surface, the abradable material defining a first abra...