US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 9 for "Gas turbine engine with inertially damped seals" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,724, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine with inertially damped seals" was invented by Uttara Vijay Kumar (Rexford, N.Y.), Deepak Trivedi (Halfmoon, N.Y.), Rahul Anil Bidkar (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, 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 floating seal assembly is disposed at an interface of the rotor and the stator to seals at least portions of the rotor ...