US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 4 for "Seal assembly for a rotor shaft of a gas turbine" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,372, issued on March 4, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Seal assembly for a rotor shaft of a gas turbine" was invented by Grant Portune (Cincinnati), Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, Ohio), Bryan Jung Woo Hong (Blue Ash, Ohio), Prateek Jalan (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Narendra Hardikar (Bengaluru, India) and David Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal assembly for a gas turbine includes a seal case, and a seal shoe arranged within the seal case. The seal shoe includes a main seal portion that is configured to engage with a radial bearing enga...