US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 9 for "Gas turbine engine fuel nozzle having a secondary fuel passage through a swirler" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,819, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine fuel nozzle having a secondary fuel passage through a swirler" was invented by Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Clayton S. Cooper (Evendale, Ohio), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.), Manampathy G. Giridharan (Evendale, Ohio), Steven C. Vise (West Chester, Ohio), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India), Saket Singh (Bengaluru, India) and R Narasimha Chiranthan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. ...