US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Avio on Jan. 20 for "Heat source for hydrogen fuel supply system" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,338, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Heat source for hydrogen fuel supply system" was invented by Mirko Gernone (Noicattaro, Italy), James L. Haffner (Cincinnati) and David Justin Brady (Rockport, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a heat source for a hydrogen fuel supply system of a turbine engine. An example apparatus includes a heat source configured to burn gaseous hydrogen to produce heat energy and a byproduct of combustion, a pipeline to transport gaseous hydrogen from a hydrogen supply to the heat...