US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 9 for "Non-contact seal for rotational equipment with radial through-hole" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,723, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Non-contact seal for rotational equipment with radial through-hole" was invented by Eric A. Grover (Tolland, Conn.) and Brian F. Hilbert (Coventry, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for rotational equipment. This assembly includes a plurality of seal shoes, a seal base and a plurality of spring elements. The seal shoes are arranged about a centerline in an annular array. The seal shoes include a first seal shoe configured with an aperture that extends radially through the first seal shoe. The seal base circumscribes the annular array o...