US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on April 7 for "Combustor with additively manufactured combustor body having aft frame with heat transfer augmentation" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,908, issued on April 7, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Combustor with additively manufactured combustor body having aft frame with heat transfer augmentation" was invented by Richard Martin DiCintio (Simpsonville, S.C.), Ronnie Pentecost (Travelers Rest, S.C.) and Christopher Michael West (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine system includes an additively manufactured (AM) combustor body including a one-piece member. The member includes a combustion liner including a transition portion, and an aft frame at an aft end of the transition portion. The aft fra...