US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Dec. 2 for "Combustor having a main chamber and one or more trapped vortex cavities" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,982, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustor having a main chamber and one or more trapped vortex cavities" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Clayton S. Cooper (Loveland, Ohio), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Steven C. Vise (Loveland, Ohio) and Sripathi Mohan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor having a main chamber and a trapped vortex cavity. The main chamber includes an outer liner and an inner liner. The trapped vortex cavity extends from at least one of the outer liner or the inner liner. A plurality of...