ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,763, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Asymmetric diffuser for turbine" was invented by Christos Georgakis (Lincoln, Great Britain), Matthew Elijah Moore (Lincoln, Great Britain) and Paul Eifion Roach (Lincoln, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine may include a shaft defining an axis, a turbine blisc, bladed disc or disc rotatable about the axis and supporting a plurality of blades, and a casement positioned around the plurality of blades, where the casement forms a flow path to an outlet. The turbine may include a diffuser protruding into the flow path, where the dif...