US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Jan. 13 for "Sealing device and flow machine with the sealing device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,158, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Sealing device and flow machine with the sealing device" was invented by Ranjith Kumar Arinipalli (Finspang, Sweden), Adrian Pauli (Vinninga, Sweden) and Urban Karlsson (Finspang, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device for a flow machine, wherein the sealing device has a flap seal, a surface, a first protrusion protruding from the surface, a second protrusion protruding from the surface and a biasing member that is supported on the first protrusion and the second protrusion and is adapted to push the flap seal away from the...