ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,980, issued on June 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Fuel nozzle and swirler" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India), Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), Steven C. Vise (West Chester, Ohio), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Manampathy G. Giridharan (Evendale, Ohio), Saket Singh (Bengaluru, India) and Clayton S. Cooper (Evendale, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. A fuel nozzle assembly can supply fuel to the combustor for combustion or ignition of the fuel. Th...