ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,995, issued on May 27, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Ultra compact combustor" was invented by Venkat Eswarlu Tangirala (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Narendra Digamber Joshi (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Peter Daniel Silkowski (Scotia, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a combustor for a gas turbine engine are provided herein. In some embodiments, a combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine comprising may include a combustor having an inner volume defined at least partially by a front wall, wherein the wall comprises a plurality of facets each having a through hole fluidly coupled to the inner volume, an...