ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,281, issued on May 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Environmental barrier coating" was invented by Richard Wesley Jackson III (Mystic, Conn.), Xia Tang (West Hartford, Conn.) and James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a bond coat including gettering particles and diffusive particles dispersed in a matrix; a top coat disposed over the bond coat, the top coat includes metal silicate particles; and an intermediate layer between the bond coat and the top coat. The intermediate layer inclu...