US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 18 for "Wear resistant coating, method of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,834, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Wear resistant coating, method of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same" was invented by Nathan T. Martel (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Gary M. Lomasney (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abrasive coating for a substrate comprises a strike layer is formed on a substrate top surface; a base layer is coupled to the strike layer; a tack layer is coupled to the base layer, wherein the tack layer is configured to adhere first grit particles to the base layer; a plurality of first grit particles are adapted to be coupled to the tack layer, ...