ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,612, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Rotating detonation-enabled augmentor systems" was invented by Eric J. Ruggiero (West Chester, Ohio) and Aaron J. Glaser (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein useful to thrust augmentation in a gas turbine engine. In some embodiments, the systems include augmentors that incorporate a rotating detonation architecture. An exhaust system of a gas turbine engine includes an augmentor and a peripheral wall surrounding an exhaust system core. The augmentor comprises a detonation chamber disposed within the exhaus...