ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,774, issued on May 13, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Fuel mixer" was invented by Manampathy G. Giridharan (Mason, Ohio), Pradeep Naik (Karnataka, India), Narendra D. Joshi (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Harris D. Abramson (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel mixer configured to provide a fuel-air mixture to a combustor of an engine. The fuel mixer may include a mixer body having a mixer outer wall, a center body, an annular passageway defined between the mixer outer wall and the center body, and a fuel tube assembly placed circumferentially about the mixer body. The fuel tube assembly may include a...