ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,105, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"High temperature coatings" was invented by Mehrad Mehr (Raleigh, N.C.) and Bahram Jadidian (Watchung, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forming a crystallized metal carbide undercoat on a surface of a carbon-carbon composite substrate. The method further includes forming an overcoat on a surface of the undercoat. The overcoat includes a plurality of crystallized ultra-high melting point overcoat layers. Each overcoat layer is sequentially formed by applying a mixture to a surface of an underlying layer and heating the mixture. T...