US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on Sept. 9 for "Turbine shroud assemblies with air activated pistons for biasing buffer cavity seals" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,725, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Turbine shroud assemblies with air activated pistons for biasing buffer cavity seals" was invented by Ted J. Freeman (Indianapolis), Aaron D. Sippel (Indianapolis), David J. Thomas (Indianapolis), Clark J. Snyder (Indianapolis) and Grant Cook (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine shroud assembly for use with a gas turbine engine includes a carrier segment, a blade track segment, and a seal system. The carrier segment arranged circumferentially at least partway around an axis. The blade track segment is coupled to the carrier segment and defin...