ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,361, issued on May 5, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).
"Hydrogen fuelled gas turbine engine" was invented by Martin K Yates (Derby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel system for a gas turbine engine configured to combust hydrogen fuel. The fuel system includes a main fuel conduit, a fuel pump configured to operate on hydrogen within the fuel conduit to provide pressurised fuel to a core combustor of the gas turbine engine, an auxiliary combustor downstream in fuel flow of the fuel pump, and configured to combust a portion of fuel diverted from the main fuel conduit and to heat a remainder of fuel in the main f...