US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 21 for "Systems and methods for limiting void formation in ceramic matrix composite components" (New York, Maryland, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,497, issued on April 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for limiting void formation in ceramic matrix composite components" was invented by Jerome Geoffrey Magnant (Rexford, N.Y.), Daniel Gene Dunn (Guilderland, N.Y.), Jared Hogg Weaver (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Paul Edward Gray (North East, Md.), Gregory Allen Willis (Middletown, Ohio) and Daniel P. Ivkovich (Fairfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for limiting void formation in a melt-infiltrated ceramic matrix composite (MI-CMC) component includes arranging one or more infiltrant feedstocks in fluid communication with a tar...