US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on July 14 for "Seal for a wave rotor disk engine" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,463, issued on July 14, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Seal for a wave rotor disk engine" was invented by Christopher Tait (San Mateo, Calif.), Pejman Akbari (Pasadena, Calif.), Brian Sell (Oakwood, Ohio) and Marc Polanka (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unique seal for a wave rotor disk engine is disclosed herein. The seal is operable for sealing a region between a rotor and a rotor casing. The seal is spring loaded and will engage with the tip of the rotor to reduce pressure loss within the wave rotor disk engine."...