ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,181, issued on May 26, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Turbine engine and combustor therefor" was invented by Marco Venturato (Lebanon, Ohio), Bernard Gustav Knolle (Rowley, Mass.), James Shealy (Cincinnati), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India) and Brian M. Royer (Newburyport, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustion section having a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The combustor includes a combustion chamber, at least one fuel injector, and a center body located within an air flow path of the fuel injector, where the center body...