US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 27 for "Gas turbine engine with carbon/carbon composite piston seal" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,013, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine with carbon/carbon composite piston seal" was invented by Calvin Jay Winder (Cromwell, Conn.), Fadi S. Maalouf (East Hampton, Conn.), Matthew E. Bintz (West Hartford, Conn.), Peter T. Schutte (Manchester, Conn.), Justin Roger DeLarm (Bolton, Conn.), Pieter Van Lieu (Cheshire, Conn.) and Hamidreza Mohseni (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a rotor that that has a seal surface, a shaft that has an annular seal channel that opens to the seal surface, and a seal disposed in the annular seal channel for sealing...