US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on March 17 for "CMAS-resistant thermal barrier coating for aero-engine parts" (Arizona, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,168, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"CMAS-resistant thermal barrier coating for aero-engine parts" was invented by Jason Van Sluytman (Phoenix), Vladimir Tolpygo (Phoenix) and Leah Hummel (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a coated article is disclosed. The method includes depositing a coating composition on a surface of a substrate to form a calcia-magnesia-alumina-silicate (CMAS)-resistant thermal barrier coating (TBC) thereon and give the coated article. The coating composition comprises from about 3 to about 50 wt. % of one or more rare-eart...