US Patent Issued to RTX on July 21 for "Internal aluminide coating for vanes and blades and method of manufacture" (Connecticut, Puerto Rico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,115, issued on July 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Internal aluminide coating for vanes and blades and method of manufacture" was invented by Rafael A. Perez Reisler (Arecibo, Puerto Rico), Andy Turko (Southington, Conn.), Xuan Liu (Glastonbury, Conn.), Danielle E. Jencks (Glastonbury, Conn.), Glenn A. Cotnoir (Thompson, Conn.) and Russell F. Croft (Tolland, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine component includes a substrate having first surface and a second surface disposed opposite the first surface, a plurality of holes extending through the substrate from the first surface to the second s...