ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,460, issued on July 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine nozzle alignment with combustor of gas turbine engines" was invented by Paul Hadley Vitt (Liberty Township, Ohio), Michal Osusky (Rexford, N.Y.) and Jonathan A. Filipa (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section defining a combustion chamber, and a turbine section disposed in serial flow order along a central axis of the gas turbine engine. The combustion section includes a plurality of fuel nozzles in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. The plurality ...