US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 23 for "Method of removing contaminants from a diffusion-coated component" (Polish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,696, issued on June 23, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of removing contaminants from a diffusion-coated component" was invented by Michal Jerzy Cyrek (Warsaw, Poland), Michal Chomka (Warsaw, Poland) and Mingjia Shao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of removing contaminants from a surface of a gas turbine engine component protected by a diffusion coating that comprises an additive layer on the surface of the component and a diffusion zone in the surface of the component. The method includes subjecting the surface containing contaminants to laser beam pulses to remove contaminants from t...