US Patent Issued to RTX on June 17 for "CVD functionalized particles for CMC applications" (Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,994, issued on June 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"CVD functionalized particles for CMC applications" was invented by Brendan M. Lenz (Wethersfield, Conn.), Sarah A. Frith (Jupiter, Fla.) and Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing ceramic matrix composites includes producing chemical vapor deposition functionalized ceramic particles before injecting the functionalized ceramic particles into the CMC fabric. The functionalized ceramic particles are mixed with a binder solution and then dispensed into voids present between adjacent tows of the CMC fabric. Inject...