US Patent Issued to Flanders Make VZW, Universiteit Gent on Nov. 18 for "Generator, gear box, turbomachine, and flow control device" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,836, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Flanders Make VZW (Lommel, Belgium) and Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Generator, gear box, turbomachine, and flow control device" was invented by Stephan Schlimpert (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Bart Peremans (Diest, Belgium), Bram Robberechts (Leuven, Belgium) and Jasper Nonneman (Berchem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a rotation device comprising a rotor, a stator, a target component, and a sealing device. The rotor is arranged to rotate along a rotation axis relative to the stator. The stator is arranged radial outward of the rotor to form a gap between the rotor...