US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 4 for "Gas turbine combustion section having an integrated fuel cell assembly" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,613, issued on March 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine combustion section having an integrated fuel cell assembly" was invented by Seung-Hyuck Hong (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Richard L. Hart (Broadalbin, N.Y.), Honggang Wang (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Anil Raj Duggal (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Michael Anthony Benjamin (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion section defines an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction. The combustion section includes a casing that defines a diffusion chamber. A combustion liner is disposed within the diffusion chamber and defines a combu...