ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,861, issued on May 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Combustor with baffle" was invented by Michael T. Bucaro (Arvada, Colo.) and Clayton S. Cooper (Evendale, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine and associated methods for a combustor as shown and described. The turbine engine including a combustor with a combustor liner having dilution openings and a geometry that changes along an axial direction. The combustor further having a baffle surrounding a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber of the combustor. A method for controlling nitrogen oxides within the combustor, including injectin...