US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Oct. 21 for "Diffuser with passlets" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,918, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Diffuser with passlets" was invented by Juntao Zhang (Mason, Ohio), Nicholas R. Overman (Sharonville, Ohio), Steven C. Vise (Loveland, Ohio), Andrew Wickersham (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffuser for a combustor of a turbomachine engine. The diffuser includes a body having a first annular surface and a second annular surface that define a passage, the passage being configured to cause air to flow along the passage to a first component of the combustor. The first annular surface include...