ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,324, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustion section with a primary combustor and a set of secondary combustors" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Joseph Zelina (Waynesville, Ohio), Sripathi Mohan (Bengaluru, India), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), Clayton S. Cooper (Loveland, Ohio), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Steven C. Vise (Loveland, Ohio) and Karthikeyan Sampath (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine with a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement along an engine centerline. A c...