ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,395, issued on June 17, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Method of repairing ceramic composite articles" was invented by Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of repairing an article including cleaning a repair area, wherein the repair area comprises a ceramic matrix composite; and depositing a ceramic material in the cleaned repair area using laser assisted chemical vapor deposition. Also disclosed is a repaired ceramic composite produced by this method."
The patent was filed on Jan. 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/150,451.
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