US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Dec. 23 for "Dilution horn pair for a gas turbine engine combustor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,170, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Dilution horn pair for a gas turbine engine combustor" was invented by Vishal Sanjay Kediya (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India) and Narasimhan S. Sahana (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine engine has an annular inner liner and an annular outer liner forming a combustion chamber therebetween. A dilution horn pair includes dilution horns that provide a flow of an oxidizer gas into the combustion chamber in a dilution zone. At least one of the dilution horns forming...