US Patent Issued to RTX on March 11 for "Surface treatment for aqueous slurry-based environmental barrier coating" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,343, issued on March 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Surface treatment for aqueous slurry-based environmental barrier coating" was invented by James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.) and Tania Bhatia Kashyap (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating a ceramic matrix composite substrate with an environmental barrier coating includes the steps of: treating a surface of a ceramic matrix composite substrate to adjust wettability of the surface; and applying an aqueous slurry-based environmental barrier coating to the surface. The treating step can be a plasma treatment to remove organic ...