US Patent Issued to RTX on July 1 for "Thermal barrier coating for gas turbine engine components" (Virginia, Connecticut, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,938, issued on July 1, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Thermal barrier coating for gas turbine engine components" was invented by Christopher W. Strock (Kennebunk, Maine), Michael J. Maloney (Marlborough, Conn.), David A. Litton (West Hartford, Conn.), Benjamin Joseph Zimmerman (Moseley, Va.) and Brian T. Hazel (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure can include a substrate, a thermal barrier coating deposited on at least a portion of the substrate, and an outer layer deposited on at least a portion of the thermal ba...