ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,663, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Method for fabricating a ceramic material" was invented by Paul Sheedy (Vernon, Conn.), Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Conn.) and Tania Bhatia Kashyap (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic article includes a ceramic matrix composite that has a porous reinforcement structure and a ceramic matrix within pores of the porous reinforcement structure. The ceramic matrix composite includes a surface zone comprised of an exterior surface of the ceramic matrix composite and pores that extend from the exterior surface into the ceramic matrix com...