ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,405, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Wear resistant article and method of making" was invented by Raghavendra Rao Adharapurapu (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear resistant article including a substrate and a bulk metallic glass coating including an alloy of a base metal, a transition metal, boron, and silicon, wherein the bulk metallic glass coating has a thickness of about 0.05 millimeter or greater and a functionally graded microstructure. A method of producing an article with a wear resistant coating by additively printing a bulk metallic glass coating onto at least a...