US Patent Issued to OERLIKON METCO (US) on July 8 for "High-entropy oxides for thermal barrier coating (TBC) top coats" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,520, issued on July 8, was assigned to OERLIKON METCO (US) INC. (Westbury, N.Y.).

"High-entropy oxides for thermal barrier coating (TBC) top coats" was invented by Jianhong He (Bethpage, N.Y.), Heidi Lynette Lovelock (Rhoenblick, Germany), Naixie Zhou (Westbury, N.Y.), Tyler Harrington (New York) and Timothy Sharobem (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal barrier coating (TBC) top coat which is a high entropy oxide (HEO) having a high configurational entropy, contains at least 5 different oxide-forming metallic cations, is a single phase or single crystalline structure, such as tetragonal or cubic over unexpectedly w...