US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on April 14 for "Premixer array" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,488, issued on April 14, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Premixer array" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Gregory A. Boardman (Owens Cross Roads, Ala.) and Vishal Sanjay Kediya (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A premixer array for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of swirled premixer tubes and a plurality of non-swirled premixer tubes. The premixer array further includes a pilot tube for providing a pilot product. The plurality of swirled premixer tubes may guide and spread out the pilot product in a radial direction, in a circumferential direction, or both in a rad...