US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 21 for "Methods to remove an EBC from a substrate and to repair a coated component" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,498, issued on April 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods to remove an EBC from a substrate and to repair a coated component" was invented by Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Julin Wan (Rexford, N.Y.), Andrea Vozar (Niskayuna, N.Y.), James Edward Murphy (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Claire Susan Henderson (Malta, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for removing a bondcoat and an environmental barrier coating from a coated component. The method may include contacting the coated component with an etchant liquid comprising phosphoric acid, 5% by volume to 70% by volume of hydrogen fluor...