US Patent Issued to RTX on March 11 for "Internal aluminide coating for vanes and blades and method of manufacture" (Connecticut, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,496, issued on March 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Internal aluminide coating for vanes and blades and method of manufacture" was invented by Rafael A. Perez Reisler (Arecibo, Ore.), Andy Turko (Southington, Conn.), Xuan Liu (Glastonbury, Conn.), Danielle E. Jencks (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Glenn A. Cotnoir (Thompson, Conn.) and Russell F. Croft (Tolland, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine component includes a substrate having first surface and a second surface disposed opposite the first surface, a plurality of holes extending through the substrate from the first surface to the second surface...