US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Bleed valve assembly with valve seal for gas turbine engine compressors" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,010, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Bleed valve assembly with valve seal for gas turbine engine compressors" was invented by Kerry J. Lighty (Indianapolis) and Steven Mazur (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bleed valve assembly includes a manifold coupled to a case of a compressor of a gas turbine engine to control a flow of bleed air exiting the compressor, a valve housing coupled with the manifold, a piston configured to move selectively relative to the valve housing and the manifold, and a valve seal configured to block bleed air from passing between ...