US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on Oct. 28 for "Carbon/carbon composites and methods of making carbon/carbon composites having increased wear life" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,988, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Carbon/carbon composites and methods of making carbon/carbon composites having increased wear life" was invented by James W. Rudolph (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Atta Khan (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a carbon structure can comprise: infiltrating the carbon structure with a silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) precursor sol; and densifying the carbon structure by chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) to form a carbon and ceramic matrix composite material, the carbon and ceramic matrix composite material comprising between 0% an...