ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,556, issued on March 31, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine, fuel nozzle assembly, and method" was invented by Hiranya Kumar Nath (Bengaluru, India), Steven C. Vise (Loveland, Ohio), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati) and Narasimha Chiranthan Ranganatha (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine, comprising a compressor section, combustion section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement, with the combustion section comprising: a combustor liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber; a wall coupled to the combustor liner; a first fuel supply to supply...