US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Aug. 25 for "Seal assembly with anti-rotation feature" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,490, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Seal assembly with anti-rotation feature" was invented by Martin Drolet (Saint-Amable, Canada) and Melanie Brillant (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston seal assembly includes a ring and a seal. The ring includes a ring body. The ring body extends circumferentially about a centerline axis. The ring body extends circumferentially between a first circumferential ring end and a second circumferential ring end. The ring body forms a ring end gap between the first circumferential ring end and the second circumferential ring end. The sea...