US Patent Issued to General Electric, General Electric Deutschland Holding on Aug. 11 for "Aspirating face seal assembly for a rotary machine" (American, Indian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,074, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Aspirating face seal assembly for a rotary machine" was invented by Prateek Jalan (Bangalore, India), Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, Ohio), Rahul Anil Bidkar (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Grant Robert Portune (Cincinnati), Tajinder Singh (Bengaluru, India) and Antonio Guijarro Valencia (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspirating face seal assembly includes a stationary component and a seal body defining a seal face. The seal body defines a fluid feed passage within the seal body. The fl...