ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,821, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustor for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Rimple Rakeshkumar Rangrej (Bengaluru, India), Saket Singh (Bengaluru, India), Narasimha Chiranthan R (Bengaluru, India), Shai Birmaher (Cincinnati), Hiranya Kumar Nath (Bengaluru, India) and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline extending in a longitudinal direction, a radial direction extending orthogonally outward from the longitudinal c...