US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 18 for "Systems and methods for thermally processing CMC components" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,446, issued on March 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for thermally processing CMC components" was invented by Aaron Todd Sellinger (Cincinnati), Theodore Robert Grossman (Cincinnati), Timothy P. Coons (Cincinnati), Ryan Marcus Young (West Chester, Ohio) and Nicholas Frederick Wendeln (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for thermally processing composite components are provided. In one exemplary aspect, a system includes a thermal system, a mover device, and a control system. The system also includes a plurality of vessels in which one or more components may b...