US Patent Issued to METAL IMPROVEMENT on March 18 for "Method for making high lubricity abradable material and abradable coating" (South Carolina, Rhode Island, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,793, issued on March 18, was assigned to METAL IMPROVEMENT COMPANY LLC (Paramus, N.J.).

"Method for making high lubricity abradable material and abradable coating" was invented by Xinqing Ma (Willington, Conn.), Richard Bajan (Wellford, S.C.) and Peter F. Ruggiero (Westerly, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abradable powder composition is includes a metal component, a lubricant component, and a polymer component. A portion of the metal component is wrapped in the lubricant component to achieve high lubricity and abradability. The abradable powder composition can be used to form an abradable seal coating provided for use in a t...