US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Feb. 4 for "Turbine engine including a steam system" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,634, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a steam system" was invented by Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Robert R. Rachedi (Morrow, Ohio) and Kirk D. Gallier (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine for an aircraft includes a turbo-engine with a core air flow path, a fan having a fan shaft coupled to the turbo-engine to rotate the fan shaft, and a steam system. A combustor is located in the core air flow path to combust fuel and to generate combustion gases. The steam system extracts water from the combustion gases and vaporizes the w...