US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 15 for "Environmental barrier coating and method of applying the same" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,365, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Environmental barrier coating and method of applying the same" was invented by James T. Beals (West Hartford, Conn.), Xia Tang (West Hartford, Conn.), Richard Wesley Jackson III (Mystic, Conn.) and Andrew Spaeth (Holden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article includes a substrate, a barrier layer disposed on the substrate, and an oxide-based ceramic material topcoat disposed on the barrier layer. The topcoat includes at least one crack. The article also includes a filler layer disposed on the topcoat and in the at least one crack. A method of applying ...