US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 18 for "Combined cycle propulsion system for hypersonic flight" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,050, issued on March 18, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combined cycle propulsion system for hypersonic flight" was invented by Arin Elspeth Lastufka Cross (Waterford, N.Y.) and Krishnakumar Venkatesan (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined cycle propulsion system for a flight vehicle includes a compressor-fed combustion engine, and a multi-mode supersonic engine. The multi-mode supersonic engine includes an adjustable inlet section, a combustion section arranged downstream of the adjustable inlet section and including a first combustor portion having at least one rotating detonati...