US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Feb. 18 for "System and method having multi-fluid injectors for isothermal expansion in turbine stage of gas turbine engine" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,072, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method having multi-fluid injectors for isothermal expansion in turbine stage of gas turbine engine" was invented by John Farrior Woodall (Greer, S.C.) and Joel Meador Hall (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a gas turbine having a turbine stage disposed in a combustion gas path, wherein the turbine stage includes turbine vanes disposed upstream from turbine blades. The system includes an isothermal expansion system coupled to the turbine stage. The isothermal expansion system includes multi-fluid ...