US Patent Issued to HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US on Sept. 8 for "Gas turbine engine fuel atomizer shroud cooling" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,646, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US LLC (Phoenix).

"Gas turbine engine fuel atomizer shroud cooling" was invented by Nagaraja Rudrapatna (Phoenix), Curtis Swift (Phoenix), Philip Smalley (Phoenix), Liangyu Wang (Phoenix), Tim Ewing (Phoenix) and Duane M. Peterson (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a gas turbine engine with a combustor liner having a wall defining a combustion chamber. An injector module extends into the combustion chamber and includes an atomizer body. A shroud extends around the atomizer body. The shroud defines a coolant chamber within the shroud around the at...