US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 19 for "Thermal barrier coating compositions, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same" (Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,248, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Thermal barrier coating compositions, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same" was invented by Susanne M. Opalka (Old Chatham, N.Y.) and Weina Li (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a process for coating a component, comprising applying a bond coat on a substrate of a component; applying a thermal barrier material to the bond coat; and applying a coating containing polynuclear aluminum oxide/hydroxide clusters, to the thermal barrier material. Disclosed herein too is a gas turbine engine component, ...