ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,588, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Seal assembly for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Tajinder Singh (Bengaluru, India), Rajesh Kumar (Bengaluru, India), David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Bryan Jung Woo Hong (Blue Ash, Ohio), Narendra Anand Hardikar (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India) and Jeffrey Douglas Rambo (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a rotor, a stator, and a seal assembly disposed between the rotor and the stator. The seal assembly includes seal segment. The seal segment includes a seal face that is configur...