ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,977, issued on June 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Fuel injector architectures for turbine engines with multi-stage geometry, staged fuel injection, and hybrid swirl control" was invented by Pabitra Badhuk (Jhargram, India), Aritra Chakraborty (Kolkata, India), Prithiviraaj Pet T (Madurai, India), Karthikeyan Sampath (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India) and Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel injector is provided for a turbine engine comprising a compression section, a combustion section, and a turbine section is s...