US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on July 8 for "Combustor assembly for a turbine engine" (Ohio, Delaware, Tennessee, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,440, issued on July 8, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustor assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Michael Alan Stieg (Cincinnati), Gregory Scott Phelps (Cincinnati), Jeffrey Douglas Johnson (Newark, Del.), Chad Holden Sutton (Nashville, Tenn.), Robert Andrew Stowers (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Darrell Glenn Senile (Oxford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a dome having a forward surface and an inner surface. The forward surface and the inner surface of the dome at least partially define a slot. The combustor assembly also includes a liner at le...