US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 24 for "Turbine engine seal for turbine engines" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,415, issued on March 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine seal for turbine engines" was invented by Paul Mathew (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India) and David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine seal configured for use between a turbine engine rotor and a turbine engine static component of a turbine engine can include a seal construction having a negative thermal expansion (NTE) layer located on one or both of the turbine engine rotor and turbine engine static component. The NTE layer can include a NTE reactive component comp...