ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,002, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Propulsion system for jet noise reduction" was invented by Nikolai N. Pastouchenko (Latham, N.Y.), Umesh Paliath (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Changjin Yoon (Schenectady, N.Y.), Jason A. Lee (Loveland, Ohio) and David Andrew Perveiler (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system is provided, wherein the propulsion system includes an afterburner assembly. The afterburner assembly including: an exhaust section and a fuel injector assembly that is operable to inject fuel in the exhaust section. The fuel injector assembly includes a pluralit...