US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on July 21 for "Gas turbine operation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,129, issued on July 21, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).

"Gas turbine operation" was invented by Craig W Bemment (Derby, Great Britain), Benjamin J Keeler (Chesterfield, Great Britain), Kevin R McNally (Derby, Great Britain) and Andrea Minelli (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a gas turbine engine and a gas turbine engine includes a fuel delivery system arranged to provide fuel, a combustor arranged to combust at least a proportion of the fuel, a primary fuel-oil heat exchanger arranged to have up to 100% of the fuel provided by the fuel delivery system flow therethrough, and a second...