US Patent Issued to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees on Dec. 23 for "Glass-ceramic thermal paint system and method using UV:VIS spectroscopy" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,611, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees (Kingston, R.I.).

"Glass-ceramic thermal paint system and method using UV:VIS spectroscopy" was invented by Noah Burke (Cumberland, R.I.), Panagiotis Panoutsopoulos (Middletown, R.I.), Zachary Ahlquist (Cranston, R.I.) and Otto J. Gregory (Point Judith, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Temperature measurements are critical in gas turbine engine design but difficult to obtain due to the extreme environment. Temperature indicating paints (thermal paints) have been used for decades to map maximum temperature fields on superalloy components but have n...