ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,845, issued on July 15, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Consumable coatings and methods of protecting a high temperature component from dust deposits" was invented by Vidya Ramaswamy (La Canada, Calif.), Krishan Lal Luthra (Schenectady, N.Y.), Geoffrey Mark Eadon (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Vijay Kumar Srivastava (Perrysburg, Ohio), Nathaniel Patrick Brown (Cincinnati) and Don Mark Lipkin (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated component may have a consumable coating that protects the component from dust. A coated component may include a silicon containing substrate defining a substrate surface, a b...