US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 25 for "Cover plate for CMC components" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,362, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Cover plate for CMC components" was invented by Russell Kim (Temecula, Calif.), Monty Harned (San Clemente, Calif.) and David J Wasserman (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conformable cover plate can be used to provide a barrier layer between ceramic matrix composite (CMC) components of jet engines and metallic ancillary hardware that is used, for example, to support the CMC components within the engine. The cover plate conforms to a structure feature of the CMC component that will be in close proximity to the ancillary hardware. By acting as a barr...