ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,002, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Seal support assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Chandrashekhar Kandukuri (Bengaluru, India), David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Rajesh Kumar (Bengaluru, India) and Tajinder Singh (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes: a rotor; a stator comprising a carrier; a seal assembly disposed between the rotor and the stator, the seal assembly comprising a plurality of seal segments supported at least in part by the carrier, the plur...