ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,238, issued on July 29, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine combustor having a ceramic matrix composite liner and dome" was invented by Trevor James Hahm (Cincinnati), Daniel J. Kirtley (Blue Ash, Ohio), Scott M. Bush (Liberty Township, Ohio), Adam Robert Kahn (Mason, Ohio), Shai Birmaher (Cincinnati), Ryan Christopher Jones (West Chester, Ohio), Nathan Richard Hermanson (Cincinnati) and Gerardo Antonio Salazar Lois (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) dome structure, a CMC outer liner, a CMC inner l...