US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 12 for "Seal assembly for a rotary machine" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,644, issued on May 12, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Seal assembly for a rotary machine" was invented by Rahul Anil Bidkar (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Deepak Trivedi (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Christopher Edward Wolfe (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Darren Lee Hallman (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Kristopher Frutschy (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Mark Bowen (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary machine seal assembly includes seal segments configured to circumferentially extend around a rotor between a stator and the rotor of a rotary machine. One or more seal segments include a shoe plate, a seal base, and at least one intermediate member...