US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 30 for "Seal assembly for a gas turbine engine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,969, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Seal assembly for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Prateek Jalan (Bangalore, India), Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, Ohio), Rajesh Kumar (Bangalore, India), Tajinder Singh (Bangalore, India), Alok Kumar (Bangalore, India), Lucas Parisot (Boston) and Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section and a turbine section in axial flow arrangement defining an axially extending, longitudinal centerline, and arranged as a rotor and a stator. A seal assembly defines a primary sea...