US Patent Issued to RTX on May 12 for "Environmental barrier coating" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,225, issued on May 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Environmental barrier coating" was invented by Xia Tang (West Hartford, Conn.), Richard Wesley Jackson III (Mystic, Conn.), James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.), David A. Litton (West Hartford, Conn.) and Brian T. Hazel (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a substrate and a barrier layer on the substrate. The barrier layer includes a bond coat comprising a matrix, diffusive particles disposed in the matrix, and gettering particles disposed in the matrix;...