US Patent Issued to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL on March 3 for "Combustor for a gas turbine engine including a collar surrounding a secondary fuel injector to define upstream and downstream purge paths" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,998, issued on March 3, was assigned to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Combustor for a gas turbine engine including a collar surrounding a secondary fuel injector to define upstream and downstream purge paths" was invented by Jaishree Sharma (Oviedo, Fla.), Landon Tully (Charlotte, N.C.), Rohit Khattar (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sudeep Bosu (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor includes a premixer fuel injector that injects fuel into the combustor and ignites mixture of the fuel and compressed air to produce exhaust gas, a transition duct through which the exhaust gas passes, a secondary fuel injector...