US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 3 for "Turbine engine including a steam system" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,293, issued on June 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Turbine engine including a steam system" was invented by Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), James R. Reepmeyer (Montgomery, Ohio), Koji Asari (Sharonville, Ohio), Erich Alois Krammer (West Chester, Ohio) and Robert R. Rachedi (Morrow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine for an aircraft includes a turbo-engine with a core air flow path, a fan having a fan shaft coupled to the turbo-engine to rotate the fan shaft, and a steam system. A combustor is positioned in the core air flow path to combust fuel and to generate combustion gases. The ...