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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,229, issued on May 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Environmental barrier coating with thermal resistance" was invented by Richard Wesley Jackson III (Mystic, Conn.), Xia Tang (West Hartford, 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 includes a substrate and a bond coat disposed on the substrate. The bond coat includes a matrix, a plurality of gettering particles disposed in the matrix, a plurality of diffusive particles disposed in the matrix, a radiation-absorbing component disposed in the matrix, ...