US Patent Issued to SAFRAN CERAMICS, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on May 27 for "Environmental barrier for a substrate comprising free silicon" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,282, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAFRAN CERAMICS (Le Haillan, France), UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX (Bordeaux, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Environmental barrier for a substrate comprising free silicon" was invented by Thibault Mouret (Bordeaux, France), Francis Rebillat (Pessac, France), Laurence Maille (Bordeaux, France), Simon Arnal (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Eric Bouillon (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A part includes a substrate of ceramic matrix composite material, the substrate including silicon, the part further including an environmental barrier formed on at l...