ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,040, issued on March 31, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Bondcoats having a metalloid-based material matrix" was invented by Marissa Chantal Brennan (Schenectady, N.Y.), Andrea Lena Vozar (Niskayuna, N.Y.), James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, N.Y.) and Enes Sales (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coated components are provided that include a substrate having a surface; a bondcoat over the surface of the substrate; a thermally grown oxide layer over the bondcoat; and an environmental barrier coating over the thermally grown oxide layer. The bondcoat includes a plurality of core-shell particulates and a plur...