ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,302, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Metallic coating process for combustor panels using a barrel configuration" was invented by Frank J. Trzcinski (Milford, Pa.), Scott A. Elliott (Rock Hill, N.Y.) and Andrew Cervoni (Staatsburg, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coating a component includes attaching the component to a support that is configured to hold a plurality of components and placing a base of the support in a holder that is attached to rotatable member of a fixture, wherein an axis of the holder is parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotatable member. The method also inclu...