US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 3 for "Gas turbine engine with carbon/carbon composite piston seal" (Connecticut, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,637, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine with carbon/carbon composite piston seal" was invented by Calvin Jay Winder (Cromwell, Conn.), Fadi S. Maalouf (East Hampton, Conn.), Matthew E. Bintz (West Hartford, Conn.), Peter T. Schutte (Manchester, Conn.), Pieter Van Lieu (Cheshire, Conn.), Justin Roger DeLarm (Bolton, Conn.), Anna Lauren Wright (Poulsbo, Wash.), Hamidreza Mohseni (Avon, Conn.), David R. Lyders (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Xiaomei Fang (South Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a seal for a gas turbine engine includes providing a carbon fi...