ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,829, issued on June 2, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Particle enhancement of ceramic matrix composites, method of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same" was invented by Kathryn S. Read (Marlborough, Conn.), Tyler G. Vincent (Portland, Conn.) and Richard Wesley Jackson III (Mystic, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a ceramic matrix composite comprising a preform comprising a plurality of plies; a ceramic matrix encompassing the plies and distributed through the plies; and thermally conducting particles distributed through the ceramic matrix. Disclosed herein is a method comprising...