ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,089, issued on June 10, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Seal assembly for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Narendra Anand Hardikar (Bengaluru, India), David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India) and Mohan Kannaiah Raju (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a rotor, a stator having a carrier, and a seal assembly that is disposed between the rotor and the stator. The seal assembly includes a plurality of seal segments. The plurality of seal segments includes a seal segment having a seal face forming a fluid bearing with the rotor, ...