US Patent Issued to RTX on July 29 for "Adaptive surface texturing for ceramic matrix composites" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,389, issued on July 29, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Adaptive surface texturing for ceramic matrix composites" was invented by Zhigang Wang (South Windsor, Conn.), Xia Tang (West Hartford, Conn.), James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.), Gajawalli V. Srinivasan (South Windsor, Conn.), John D. Riehl (Hebron, Conn.), Brian T. Hazel (Avon, Conn.) and David A. Litton (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive surface texturing method is provided for use with a part formed of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) to be coated with an environmental barrier coating (EBC). The method includes coating a CMC s...