US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on July 7 for "Combustor head end section with integrated cooling system" (South Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,581, issued on July 7, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Combustor head end section with integrated cooling system" was invented by Michael John Hughes (State College, Pa.), Jonathan Dwight Berry (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor head end section includes an integrated cooling system. The combustor head end section includes: a bundled tube fuel nozzle assembly having a forward plate facing a head end air plenum, an aft plate facing a combustion chamber, and premixing tubes extending from the forward plate to th...