US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on April 14 for "Combustors and methods of mitigating thermoacoustic instabilities in a gas flow" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,493, issued on April 14, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).

"Combustors and methods of mitigating thermoacoustic instabilities in a gas flow" was invented by David Steele (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a heat engine 10 comprising a combustor 120 and a controller 290. The combustor 120 includes a fuel injection port 128 and a pilot 130. The controller 290 is configured to mitigate thermoacoustic instabilities in a gas flow A, B within the heat engine 10 by selectively energising 320 the pilot 130 to ignite fuel discharged from the fuel injection port 128. There is also provided a metho...