ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,175, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Environmental barrier coatings" was invented by Glen Harold Kirby (Liberty Township, Ohio), Nathaniel Patrick Brown (Cincinnati), Guruvenket Srinivasan (Loveland, Ohio), Reza Sarrafi-Nour (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Nicholas Edward Antolino (Schenectady, N.Y.), Julin Wan (Rexford, N.Y.), Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Taryn Elizabeth Hewitt (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Environmental barrier coatings including a bondcoat layer including silicon and a rare earth silicate-based hermetic layer and rare earth silicate-based non-hermetic la...