ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,228, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to EXONETIK TURBO INC. (Sherbrooke, Canada).
"Rim-rotor turbine sealing and cooling arrangement" was invented by Benoit Picard (Sherbrooke, Canada), Jean-Sebastien Plante (Sherbrooke, Canada), Mathieu Picard (Sherbrooke, Canada), Antoine Gauvin-Verville (Sherbrooke, Canada) and Louis-Philippe Jean (Sherbrooke, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly may include a rim-rotor turbine having a hub adapted to be mounted or connected to a rotating shaft, a rim-rotor, the rim-rotor having a cooling ring defining at least one cooling channel, and a plurality of blades with each of the plurality ...