US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 30 for "Environmental barrier coating with thermal properties" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,348, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Environmental barrier coating with thermal properties" was invented by David A. Litton (West Hartford, Conn.), Richard Wesley Jackson III (Mystic, Conn.), Xia Tang (West Hartford, Conn.) and James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a substrate and a barrier layer on the substrate. The barrier layer includes a bond coat comprising a matrix, diffusive particles disposed in the matrix, and gettering particles disposed in the matrix. A...