US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on May 13 for "Turbine engine having a reverse flow annular vortex combustor" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,009, issued on May 13, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine having a reverse flow annular vortex combustor" was invented by Rachel Yu (Medford, Mass.), Nicholas R. Overman (Sharonville, Ohio) and William David Magnuszewski (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine including a compressor section for compressing air flowing therethrough to provide a compressed air flow and a reverse flow annular vortex combustor including a combustion chamber having a primary combustion zone, the combustion chamber configured to combust a mixture of a fuel flow and the compressed air flow in t...