US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 29 for "Low thermal conductivity, high toughness tbc compositions" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,572, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Low thermal conductivity, high toughness tbc compositions" was invented by Mohandas Nayak (Bangalore, India), Sundeep Kumar (Bangalore, India), Arundhati Sengupta (Bangalore, India), Joshua R. Salisbury (Albany, N.Y.), Vipin Raju S (Bangalore, India) and Julie Marie Kuhn (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition comprising an yttria-rare earth-doped zirconium oxide is provided that has a tetragonal structure and a formula: YaLnbCexZr1-a-b-xO2-Delta where Ln is a mixture of rare earth elements; 0.01less than equal toaless than equal to0.051;...