US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on April 22 for "Fuel injection assembly for a combustor" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,793, issued on April 22, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Fuel injection assembly for a combustor" was invented by Wei Zhao (Greer, S.C.), Wessam Sherif Estefanos (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel injection assembly for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a body with a head section that defines an air intake chamber. A mixing chamber is disposed below the air intake chamber. A deflection member is disposed in the air intake chamber and includes an upper deflection surface and sides spaced apart from inner wall surfaces of the ...