ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,659, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).
"Fused sand-resistant turbine part" was invented by Aurelien Joulia (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Luc Patrice Bianchi (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Benjamin Dominique Roger Joseph Bernard (Joue-les-Tours, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine part includes a substrate, an environmental barrier and one or more reactive layers. The environmental barrier includes a thermal insulation layer, a sublayer suitable for promoting adhesion between the substrate and the thermal insulation layer, and a protective layer suitable for protecting the substrate from oxidation and/or corro...