US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 26 for "Material systems for repair of thermal barrier coating and methods thereof" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,947, issued on May 26, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Material systems for repair of thermal barrier coating and methods thereof" was invented by Atanu Saha (Bengaluru, India), Hrishikesh Keshavan (Bengaluru, India), Mamatha Nagesh (Bengaluru, India), Ambarish J. Kulkarni (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Bernard P. Bewlay (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for repairing a thermal barrier coating deposited on a component with localized spallation of the thermal barrier coating includes depositing a primer slurry on a thermally grown oxide of the component exposed by the localized spallation, depositin...