US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 2 for "Seal support assembly for a turbine engine" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,779, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Seal support assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Vidyashankar Ramasastry Buravalla (Bengaluru, India), David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Rajesh Kumar (Bengaluru, India) and Jeffrey Douglas Rambo (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine is provided. The turbine engine includes: a rotor; a stator having a carrier; a seal support assembly coupled to the carrier; and a seal assembly disposed between the rotor and the stator and supported by the seal support assembly, the seal asse...