ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,782, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Coating layer with slow SIO2 crystallization rate" was invented by Jun Shi (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article having a coating system configured to inhibit or prevent crystallization of a thermally grown oxide (TGO) layer at the operating temperature of the article. An article includes a substrate defining a surface and a coating layer that includes a dopant configured to inhibit crystallization of a thermally grown oxide layer comprising amorphous silicon dioxide at an interface of the coating layer at the operating temperature of the art...