US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Feb. 24 for "Erosion resistant coatings applied by variable bias cathodic arc deposition" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,845, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Erosion resistant coatings applied by variable bias cathodic arc deposition" was invented by Scott Andrew Weaver (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Joshua Roger Salisbury (Albany, N.Y.), Aida Amroussia (Paris), Jon Michael Wilcox (Watervliet, N.Y.) and Patrick Taylor Shower (Nassau, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cathodic arc coating system includes alternating layers of at least one of titanium vanadium nitride (TiVN) and titanium silicon vanadium nitride (TiSiVN) disposed on a substrate; and alternating layers of titanium vanadium chromium nitr...