ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,194, issued on May 6, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Ignitor housing for a combustor of a gas turbine" was invented by Karthikeyan Sampath (Bengaluru, India), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India) and Hiranya Nath (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine includes a combustor liner, an outer casing surrounding the combustor liner, an ignitor housing extending through an ignitor opening through the liner, and an ignitor disposed within the ignitor housing. The ignitor housing includes a housing wall including...