US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on July 1 for "Oxidation protection with improved water resistance for composites" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,564, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Oxidation protection with improved water resistance for composites" was invented by Jun Nable (Hamden, Conn.), Steven A. Poteet (Ashland, Mass.), Xia Tang (West Hartford, Conn.) and James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for forming an oxidation protection system on a composite structure are provided. In various embodiments, the oxidation protection system comprises a boron-glass layer formed on the composite substrate and a silicon-glass layer formed over the boron-glass layer. Each of the boron-glass layer and t...