ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,255, issued on June 10, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Dome-deflector for a combustor of a gas turbine" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Hiranya Nath (Bengaluru, India), Deepti Bhandari (Bengaluru, India) and Girish Kamath Cannanore (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine includes a dome structure including a dome-side swirler opening therethrough, and a deflector connected to the dome structure. The deflector includes a deflector-side swirler opening therethrough and a deflector-dome connecting member arranged at the deflector-side swirle...