ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,866, issued on March 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).
"Seal assembly and method of manufacturing" was invented by Daniel Alecu (Brampton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The seal assembly can have a support ring having an annular shape defined around a seal axis, and a plurality of strips of a metal material, each strip of the plurality of strips being folded along a length of the strip forming a fold and a pair of segments extending radially inwardly from the fold, relative the seal axis, the fold secured at the support ring, the fold having a bending radius defined around a bending axis, ...