US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 12 for "Composite components and methods for preventing flow from infiltrated component during re-infiltration" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,727, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Composite components and methods for preventing flow from infiltrated component during re-infiltration" was invented by Juan P. Borja (Latham, N.Y.), Daniel Gene Dunn (Guilderland, N.Y.), Jared Hogg Weaver (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modifying a composite component may include positioning a barrier segment between an infiltrated segment of the composite component and a green segment to form an assembly; and initiating an infiltration process. The barrier segment may have a barri...