US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 22 for "Interface coating process" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,286, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Interface coating process" was invented by Ying She (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Jun Nable (Hamden, Conn.) and Jonas Banhos (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying an interface coating to fibers in the manufacture of a fiber-reinforced composite material includes separating a plurality of fibers with a plurality of spacers disposed between adjacent fibers and depositing, via chemical vapor infiltration, an interface coating on the plurality of fibers. The plurality of spacers comprises hexagonal-boron nitride nanoparticles."

The pate...