US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 17 for "Vapor-mediated synthesis of silicon carbide matrices for ceramic matrix composites by reactive melt infiltration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,172, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Vapor-mediated synthesis of silicon carbide matrices for ceramic matrix composites by reactive melt infiltration" was invented by Ravit Silverstein (Golea, Calif.), Frank W. Zok (Goleta, Calif.) and Carlos G. Levi (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-step synthesis of SiC including initial exposure of carbon surfaces to Si vapor, followed by Si melt infiltration, is described herein. Interrupted differential thermal analysis (DTA) of amorphous C and Si powder mixtures and microstructure characterization are...