US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 1 for "Fuel nozzle and swirler" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,758, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Fuel nozzle and swirler" was invented by Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India), Manampathy G. Giridharan (Evendale, Ohio), Steven C. Vise (West Chester, Ohio), R Narasimha Chiranthan (Bengaluru, India), Michael A. Benjamin (West Chester, Ohio) 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 i...