US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Feb. 3 for "Sealing strip element and sealing arrangement comprising said sealing strip element" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,674, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Sealing strip element and sealing arrangement comprising said sealing strip element" was invented by Joachim Krutzfeldt (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany), Alexander Ralph Beeck (Orlando, Fla.), Shantanu P. Mhetras (Charlotte, N.C.), Mirko Milazar (Oberhausen, Germany), Markus Raben (Recklinghausen, Germany) and Kunyuan Zhou (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing strip element for sealing a gap between two components of a gas-turbine installation, and extends along a longitudinal direction and has a contoured cross section in a ribbed ...