US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 4 for "Cooling system for seal assemblies" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,379, issued on March 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Cooling system for seal assemblies" was invented by Nageswar Ganji (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Hiranya Nath (Bengaluru, India) and Jonathan K. Remer (Saugus, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to cooling systems for turbomachine seal assemblies. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. During operation of the turbomachine, the components of the seal assemblies generate heat, which is removed...