US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 27 for "Particle enhanced ceramic matrix composite with no particles on surface plies" (Connecticut, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,259, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Particle enhanced ceramic matrix composite with no particles on surface plies" was invented by John D. Riehl (Hebron, Conn.), Brendan Lenz (North Branford, Conn.), Zachary Paul Konopaske (West Hartford, Conn.), Olivier H. Sudre (Glastonbury, Conn.), Nil Parikh (Newington, Conn.) and Sarah Annette Frith (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite includes preparing a plurality of fibrous ceramic plies by applying a binder solution loaded with ceramic particles to each of a first subset of plies, and applying the bind...