ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,094, issued on April 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Combustor with dilution openings" was invented by Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), Varun S. Lakshmanan (Bengaluru, India), Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Steven C. Vise (West Chester, Ohio) and Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine including a compressor section and a combustion section in serial flow arrangement along an engine centerline, the combustion section having a combustor liner, a dome wall coupled to the combustor liner, and a dome inlet located in the dome ...