US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Avio on June 10 for "Gas turbine engines with a fuel cell assembly" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,118, issued on June 10, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Gas turbine engines with a fuel cell assembly" was invented by Paul Hadley Vitt (Liberty Township, Ohio), Matteo Renato Usseglio (Turin, Italy) and Brian Lewis Devendorf (Georgetown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine is provided. The aircraft engine includes a compressor section having a compressor. A turbine section is downstream of the compressor section. The turbine section includes a turbine having turbine blades arranged in counter rotating stages. The aircraft engine further include...