US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 30 for "Microstructured fiber interface coatings for composites" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,351, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Microstructured fiber interface coatings for composites" was invented by Richard Wesley Jackson (Mystic, Conn.), Ying She (Rocky Hill, Conn.) and Gajawalli V. Srinivasan (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a coated ceramic fiber including a silicon carbide coating layer adjacent to the ceramic fiber and a silicon dioxide coating layer adjacent to the silicon carbide coating layer, wherein the silicon dioxide coating layer forms micro cracks after a crystal structure transformation. The coated ceramic fiber may be included in a comp...