US Patent Issued to GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I on July 1 for "Turbomachine with thrust bearing seal plate housing member having working fluid flow aperture" (Indian, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,170, issued on July 1, was assigned to GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Turbomachine with thrust bearing seal plate housing member having working fluid flow aperture" was invented by Kiran Somashekar Rao Nazare (Bangalore, India), Poomkuzhimannil John (Bangalore, India) and Matej Kopecky (Pardubice-Rosice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachine includes a housing, a rotating group that is housed within the housing, and a fluid bearing system with a thrust member. The turbomachine further includes a compressor stage configured to receive a fluid from an area within the housing. Also, the turbomac...