US Patent Issued to Garrett Transportation I on Oct. 7 for "Spiral grooved thrust generator on turbine wheel back plate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,646, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Garrett Transportation I Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Spiral grooved thrust generator on turbine wheel back plate" was invented by Ashraf Mohamed (Torrance, Calif.), Kevin Zhang (Torrance, Calif.), Matthew S. Oakes (Torrance, Calif.) and Chris Meade (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Turbochargers for use in an engine having an internal combustion engine. The design includes, in examples, a shaft having a rotation axis, a turbine housing, a compressor housing, a center housing extending from the turbine housing to the compressor housing with the shaft therethrough, a turbine wheel disp...