ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,737, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Seal assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Rahul Anil Bidkar (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Christopher Walter Falcone (Schenectady, N.Y.), Grant Robert Portune (Cincinnati), Nora Marie Molino (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Matthew James Misch (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal assembly includes a plurality of seal segments for sealing between a rotor and a stator, wherein, when arranged together, the rotor, the stator, and the plurality of seal segments define a high pressure region and a low pressure region. The seal assembly further includes a ...