ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,246, issued on June 30, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Cross fire tube installation/removal methods and apparatus" was invented by Piotr Dzieciol (Warsaw, Poland), Mateusz Dolecki (Warsaw, Poland), Piotr Wojciechowski (Warsaw, Poland), Szymon Perkowski (Warsaw, Poland) and Marek Szyszkowski (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a cross fire tube installation/removal apparatus (100) for use with a combustor (25) of a gas turbine engine (10). The cross fire tube installation/removal apparatus (100) includes a cross fire tube assembly (110) having a...