US Patent Issued to RTX on April 14 for "Environmental barrier coating and method of making the same" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,685, issued on April 14, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Environmental barrier coating and method of making the same" was invented by James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.), Justin B. Alms (Coventry, Conn.) and Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making spherical gettering particles for an environmental barrier coating according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes spraying liquid preceramic polymer into a chamber via a nozzle to form liquid droplets, curing the liquid droplets to form spherical particles in the chamber, and con...