US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on March 11 for "System and method having flame stabilizers for isothermal expansion in turbine stage of gas turbine engine" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,739, issued on March 11, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a gas turbine having a turbine shaft disposed along a rotational axis, a turbine casing disposed circumferentially about the turbine shaft, a combustion gas path disposed between the turbine shaft and the turbine casing, and a turbine stage disposed in the combustion gas path. The turbine stage ...