US Patent Issued to RTX on April 22 for "Ceramic component having silicon layer and barrier layer" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,575, issued on April 22, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Ceramic component having silicon layer and barrier layer" was invented by Robert A. White III (Meriden, Conn.), Brian T. Hazel (Avon, Conn.) and Zhongfen Ding (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal system a ceramic component having a surface region defining a first surface roughness, a metallic component situated adjacent the surface region, and a coating system disposed on the surface region. The coating system includes a silicon-containing layer on the surface region and a barrier layer on the silicon-containing layer. The silicon-containin...