US Patent Issued to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL on April 14 for "Combustor having secondary fuel injector" (Florida, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,491, issued on April 14, was assigned to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Combustor having secondary fuel injector" was invented by Landon Tully (Charlotte, N.C.) and Walter Ray Laster (Oviedo, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor includes a transition duct having a transition duct liner defining an opening that extends through the transition duct liner, a secondary fuel injector disposed in the opening. The secondary fuel injector has an inner shell arranged to define an inner space; an outer shell cooperating with the inner shell to define an outer space that is annular; a plurality of inner flow guides po...