ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,769, issued on June 24, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a steam system" was invented by Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Aaron M. Dziech (Crittenden, Ky.), Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio), Robert R. Rachedi (Morrow, Ohio), Jeffrey D. Rambo (Mason, Ohio) and Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine for an aircraft. The turbine engine includes a combustor fluidly coupled to a fuel delivery assembly to receive fuel from the fuel delivery assembly. The fuel is injected into the combustor and combusted in the combustor to generate co...