US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 18 for "Turbine engine including a gas path component having a hydrophobic coating" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,023, issued on March 18, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a gas path component having a hydrophobic coating" was invented by Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Rajesh Kumar (Bengaluru, India) and Jeffrey D. Rambo (Mason, 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 and a steam system. Fuel and steam are injected into the combustor to mix with compressed air to generate a fuel and air mixture. The fuel and air mixture is combusted in the combustor to generate combustion gases. The steam system is fluidly coupled to th...