US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 4 for "Combustor for a turbine engine having a fuel-air mixer including a set of mixing passages" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,866, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustor for a turbine engine having a fuel-air mixer including a set of mixing passages" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Manampathy G. Giridharan (Evendale, Ohio), Ajoy Patra (Bengaluru, India), Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India) and R Narasimha Chiranthan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine can include a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in axial flow arrangement. The combustion section can include a combustor having a fuel-air mixer. The fuel-air mixer can include a body with...