US Patent Issued to RTX on July 15 for "Dislocator chemistries for turbine abradable or machinable coating systems" (California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,586, issued on July 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Dislocator chemistries for turbine abradable or machinable coating systems" was invented by William J. Joost (Worcester, Mass.), Kara J. Bridges (San Diego), Christopher W. Strock (Boothbay Harbor, Maine), Imelda P. Smyth (North Palm Beach, Fla.) and Richard Wesley Jackson (Mystic, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated article (20;60) includes a substrate (22) and a coating (24;62) on the substrate. The coating includes at least a first layer (30). The first layer has: a matrix (50); and a filler (52) at 2.0% to 40% by volume in the first layer. The first...