US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 16 for "Combustion liner for gas turbine engine" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,975, issued on June 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustion liner for gas turbine engine" was invented by Brian Gregg Feie (Cincinnati), Thomas Christopher Farrell (Asheville, N.C.) and Andrew Merz (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liner for a combustion section of a gas turbine engine includes a base portion and a stiffening portion. The base portion includes a plurality of plies of a composite material including a first ply having a fiber direction aligned with a circumferential direction of the liner and a second ply adjacent to the first ply, the second ply having a fiber direction angled...