ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,276, issued on May 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Self-healing matrix for a ceramic composite" was invented by Xia Tang (West Hartford, Conn.), James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.), Richard Wesley Jackson (Mystic, Conn.), Ying She (East Hartford, Conn.), Andrew J. Lazur (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Kathryn S. Read (Marlborough, Conn.) and Mary Colby (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a self-healing ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes depositing a first self-healing particulate material in a first region of a CMC preform of the CMC component and depositing a second ...