US Patent Issued to Garrett Transportation I on Aug. 18 for "Static gas thrust bearing" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,050, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Garrett Transportation I Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Static gas thrust bearing" was invented by Matej Kopecky (Brno, Czech Republic) and Epaphroditus Raja Sekhar Nicodemus (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two stage centrifugal compressor including a first impeller and a second impeller rigidly coupled via a rotational shaft, an electric motor for driving the rotational shaft, the first impeller configured to compress a low pressure fluid to generate a pressurized fluid, a first fluid flow channel to couple a first portion of the pressurized fluid to a first static gas thrust...