US Patent Issued to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on Sept. 8 for "Armament system with a non-rotating slip-fit labyrinth seal" (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,767, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Armament system with a non-rotating slip-fit labyrinth seal" was invented by Ryan Hanc (Mine Hill, N.J.), Francis Sheer (McAdoo, Pa.), Christopher Kubik (Flanders, N.J.), Arhum Mizra (Galloway, N.J.), Edward Hyland (Waterford, N.Y.) and Joseph Kurowsky (Rensselear, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stub base seal comprises a non-rotating slip-fit labyrinth seal to provide additional sealing properties. The labyrinth seal serves to capture errant gasses in the event of a partial leakage between the stub b...