ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,250, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).
"Guide vane assembly" was invented by Christopher A. Murray (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Nicholas Howarth (Derby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide vane assembly includes a guide vane and a sealing assembly slidable along a span of the guide vane relative to the guide vane and extending along a chordal axis and the span of the guide vane. The sealing assembly includes a plate configured to be disposed around at least a portion of an external surface of the guide vane. The sealing assembly further includes a manifold coupled to the plate and config...