US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on March 24 for "O-ring for gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,416, issued on March 24, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"O-ring for gas turbine engine" was invented by Richard Ivakitch (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal arrangement of a gas turbine engine includes a first component and a second component abutting the first component. An O-ring is positioned in a gland volume defined between the first component and the second component. The O-ring has a hollow circular cross-sectional shape including a ring inner diameter and a ring outer diameter, with a hollow portion defined by the ring inner diameter. The ring inner diameter of the cr...