US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods of blade leading edge repair using field assisted sintering technology" (Connecticut, Texas, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,590, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Systems and methods of blade leading edge repair using field assisted sintering technology" was invented by Nicholas M LoRicco (Suffield, Conn.), Brian Richard Craig (Tequesta, Fla.), Brian T Hazel (Avon, Conn.), Luke Henry Rettberg (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Xuan Liu (Glastonbury, Conn.), Michael J Minor (Mansfield, Texas), Christopher J Bischof (Southlake, Texas), Stewart S Fowler (Ft Worth, Texas) and Steven Ivory (Storrs Mansfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can comprise forming a component comprising a first mating surface; coupling the comp...