US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 22 for "Seal assembly for a rotary machine having a flexible joint" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,172, issued on July 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Seal assembly for a rotary machine having a flexible joint" was invented by Uttara Vijay Kumar (Rexford, N.Y.), Rahul Anil Bidkar (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff (Loveland, Ohio), Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, Ohio), Prateek Jalan (Bengaluru, India) and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary machine includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate with respect to the stator. The rotor is arranged with the stator at a rotor-stator interface and defines a rotor face. The rotary machine also in...