ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,244, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Repair process using plasma etching" was invented by Xiaomei Fang (South Glastonbury, Conn.) and Jakob Reed (Holt, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repair process includes providing a gas turbine engine article that has an elastomeric coating that has an eroded region, plasma etching the elastomeric coating in the eroded region, and applying an elastomeric repair coating on the eroded region."
The patent was filed on June 16, 2023, under Application No. 18/336,933.
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