US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 27 for "Coating composition, coated turbine component, and method of applying the coating" (Indian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,809, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Coating composition, coated turbine component, and method of applying the coating" was invented by Eklavya Calla (Bangalore, India), Biju Dasan (Bangalore, India), Ritwik Biswas (Bangalore, India) and Maxim Konter (Klingnau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition includes aluminum (Al), and a blend of a carbide and nickel-chromium (Ni-20Cr). The method of applying a coating composition includes blending a carbide and nickel-chromium (Ni-20Cr) with aluminum (Al) to form a composition, the carbide and the nickel-chromium (Ni-20Cr) in a ...