US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on March 4 for "Silicon carbide body with localized diamond reinforcement" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,788, issued on March 4, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Silicon carbide body with localized diamond reinforcement" was invented by Jon Coppola (Wilmington, Del.), Nicholas Coombs (Wilmington, Del.), Jiwen Wang (Wilmington, Del.) and Michael K. Aghajanian (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reaction-bonded silicon carbide (SiC) body is produced by: providing a preform including ceramic elements and carbon, and one or more surface features; providing a powder which includes diamond particles and carbon; locating the powder in the surface feature(s); and infiltrating the preform and the powder wit...