US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 16 for "Tiled combustor liner for gas turbine engines" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,976, issued on June 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Tiled combustor liner for gas turbine engines" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Steven Clayton Vise (Loveland, Ohio), Michael Anthony Benjamin (Cincinnati) and Sibtosh Pal (Mason, Ohio).

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 sheet defining a sheet opening, a tile liner coupled to the sheet and comprising a plurality of tiles, each tile of the plurality of tiles comprising a protrusion, a fastener for securing each tile of the plurality of tiles to the sheet, the fastene...