ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,561, issued on March 31, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Combustor with lean openings" was invented by Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.), Manampathy G. Giridharan (Evendale, Ohio), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Sripathi Mohan (Bengaluru, India), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Steven C. Vise (Evendale, Ohio), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India) and R Narasimha Chiranthan (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine and method of operation with a combustor as shown and described. The turbine engine including a combustor comprising an annular array o...