ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,119, issued on June 10, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Methods and apparatus to produce hydrogen gas turbine propulsion" was invented by David Justin Brady (Lynn, Mass.), Mirko Gernone (Bari, Italy) and Nathan E. Gibson (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to produce hydrogen gas turbine propulsion are disclosed. An example apparatus to produce propulsion in a gas turbine engine includes a fluid line to transport hydrogen from a hydrogen supply and an inert gas from an inert gas supply to a gas turbine combustor. The apparatus also ...