ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,427, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to OERLIKON METCO (US) INC. (Westbury, N.Y.).

"Erosion and CMAS resistant coating for protecting EBC and CMC layers and thermal spray coating method" was invented by Dianying Chen (Westbury, N.Y.) and Chris Dambra (Greenlawn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An erosion and CMAS resistant coating arranged on an EBC coated substrate includes at least one porous vertically cracked (PVC) coating layer providing CTE mitigation and being disposed over the EBC coated substrate. At least one dense vertically cracked (DVC) erosion and CMAS resistant coating layer is deposited over the at least one PVC coa...