ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,922, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Coating system and substrate with coating system" was invented by Hamidreza Mohseni (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear-reducing coating system for a substrate includes an innermost layer disposed on a substrate and an outermost layer disposed on the innermost layer. The innermost layer has higher load-carrying capacity than the outermost layer and the outermost layer has a lower coefficient of friction than the innermost layer. A method of applying a wear-reducing coating to a substrate and a method of applying a coating to a split ring casing for...