ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,413, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Internal aluminization of coated substrates" was invented by Xuan Liu (Glastonbury, Conn.), Brian T. Hazel (Avon, Conn.), Danielle E. Jencks (East Lyme, Conn.), Teresa A Munger (Manchester, Conn.), Glenn A. Cotnoir (Thompson, Conn.), Kevin W. Schlichting (South Glastonbury, Conn.) and Shaun M. Enos (Vernon, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating a component having: a metallic substrate; a ceramic coating having one or more ceramic coating layers atop the substrate; and a cooling passageway system comprising a plurality of feed passageways exten...