US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 18 for "Gas turbine fuel nozzle having an inner air passage and plural outer fuel passages" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,282, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine fuel nozzle having an inner air passage and plural outer fuel passages" was invented by Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India), R Narasimha Chiranthan (Bengaluru, India), Clayton Stuart Cooper (Loveland, Ohio), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Steven C. Vise (West Chester, Ohio), Manampathy G. Giridharan (Evendale, Ohio) and Krishnakumar Venkatesan (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

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