US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Feb. 24 for "Nonpremixed, rich, relax, lean combustor" (Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,329, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Nonpremixed, rich, relax, lean combustor" was invented by Timothy C. Lieuwen (Atlanta), Benjamin L. Emerson (Atlanta), Srujan Harish Gubbi (Atlanta), Randal Mckinney (Atlanta), Shivam Patel (Atlanta), David Wu (Atlanta) and David Robert Noble (Catawba, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a combustor, comprising a non-premixed initial stage, a fuel mixing stage downstream of the initial stage, a relaxing stage downstream of the fuel mixing stage, an air mixing stage downstream of the relaxing stage...