US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Oct. 7 for "Aft inner cap plate removal method and tooling for a combustor with micromixer tubes" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,362, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Aft inner cap plate removal method and tooling for a combustor with micromixer tubes" was invented by Tiffany M. Craig (Greenville, S.C.), Jesse Barton (Greenville, S.C.), Thomas Craig Watkins (Greenville, S.C.) and David Andrew Lowe (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides an aft plate removal tool for servicing a combustor. The combustor includes an end cover, an aft plate downstream of the end cover, and a number of tubes extending through the aft plate. The aft plate removal tool includes a base pla...