ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,986, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rolls-Royce PLC (London).
"Freestanding ceramic tile manufacture" was invented by Matthew Hancock (Derby, Great Britain) and Andrew Hewitt (Derby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a freestanding ceramic tile. The method involves: grit-blasting a substrate using a grit size in the range from 36 to 220 mesh; depositing a release layer of carbon or graphite from 2 to 10 microns thick on the grit-blasted surface of the substrate; applying ceramic over the release layer until a desired thickness of ceramic is achieved to form a ceramic layer; heating the substrate, ...