US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 20 for "Ignition system and method of operating a combustion engine" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,341, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Ignition system and method of operating a combustion engine" was invented by Craig Alan Gonyou (Blanchester, Ohio), Sibtosh Pal (Mason, Ohio), Miles Burnett (Cincinnati) and Steven C. Vise (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ignition system for a combustion engine, includes a combustor having an igniter configured to receive a series of electrical current pulses, and, responsive to each electrical pulse, to generate a spark. A sensor is configured to detect each electrical pulse to provide a signal indicative of the electrical pulse to a ...