US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on June 2 for "Cooling system for seal assemblies" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,393, issued on June 2, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Cooling system for seal assemblies" was invented by Nageswar Ganji (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Hiranya Nath (Bengaluru, India) and Jonathan K. Remer (Saugus, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system for seal assemblies in turbomachines addresses the problem of heat buildup in seal components. The described system includes a seal assembly with a sealing element coupled to a fixed housing and a runner with a first surface oriented towards the sealing element and a second surface away from the sealing eleme...