US Patent Issued to RTX on June 10 for "Doped silicon carbide ceramic matrix composite" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,670, issued on June 10, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Doped silicon carbide ceramic matrix composite" was invented by Ying She (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Andrew J. Lazur (La Jolla, Calif.) and Kathryn S. Read (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes forming a fiber preform, positioning the fiber preform into a chemical vapor infiltration reactor chamber, and densifying the fiber preform. Densification includes infiltrating the fiber preform with a first gas comprising precursors of silicon carbide and infiltrating the fiber preform with a sec...