US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 8 for "Fuel supply system for a combustor" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,218, issued on July 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Fuel supply system for a combustor" was invented by David Justin Brady (Lynn, Mass.), Mirko Gernone (Mari, Italy), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati) and Steven C. Vise (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel supply system for a combustion section of a turbine engine. The turbine engine including a heat source. The fuel supply system comprising a first fuel supply having a liquid fuel, a second fuel supply having a first gaseous fuel, and a heat exchanger fluidly coupled to the first fuel supply and the heat source. The heat exchanger produc...