US Patent Issued to RTX on June 9 for "Method for densification of CMC article" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,695, issued on June 9, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method for densification of CMC article" was invented by Raymond Surace (Newington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a CMC article includes wrapping first ceramic fibers around a mandrel to form inner fabric layers on the mandrel, depositing a first interface coating material on the first ceramic fibers, densifying the inner fabric layers to a partially-densified state with first ceramic matrix material, wrapping second ceramic fibers around the inner fabric layers to form outer fabric layers around the mandrel, depositing a second interfac...