US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 3 for "Ceramic component" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,554, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Ceramic component" was invented by Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.), Nitin Garg (Avon, Conn.), John H. Shaw (West Hartford, Conn.), Kathryn S. Read (Marlborough, Conn.), Cristal Chan (East Hampton, Conn.), Mary Colby (West Hartford, Conn.), Andrew J. Lazur (La Jolla, Calif.) and Tania Bhatia Kashyap (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic matrix composite includes a plurality of ceramic fibers and an interface coating disposed on the plurality of ceramic fibers. The interface coating includes a carbon-based layer disposed on each ceramic...