ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,303, issued on April 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).
"Seal assembly for a turbomachine" was invented by Srinivasan Swaminathan (Bengaluru, India), Anand Madihalli Srinivasan (Bengaluru, India), Shalini Thimmegowda (Bengaluru, India) and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to seal assemblies for a turbomachine. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. The seal assembly further includes a self-lubricating lattice element made of carbon or a carbon...