US Patent Issued to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie on Oct. 27 for "Pre-sintered preform with high temperature capability, in particular as abrasive coating for gas turbine blades" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,659, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).

"Pre-sintered preform with high temperature capability, in particular as abrasive coating for gas turbine blades" was invented by Stefania Stramare (Florence, Italy), Leonardo Tognarelli (Florence, Italy), Vittorio Michelassi (Florence, Italy), Gino Baldi (Florence, Italy) and Gabriele Masi (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure concerns an abrasive gas turbine blade tip cap preform for bonding to a blade tip to form an abrasive blade tip cap, the abrasive gas turbine blade tip cap preform being formed of a bonding layer...