US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 16 for "Gas turbine engine having a combustion section with steam provided to second combustor plenum" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,409, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine having a combustion section with steam provided to second combustor plenum" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Clayton S. Cooper (Loveland, Ohio), Steven C. Vise (Loveland, Ohio), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Sibtosh Pal (Mason, Ohio), Steven Marakovits (Mason, Ohio), Sripathi Mohan (Bengaluru, India) and Joseph Zelina (Waynesville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a steam generating system, and a combustion section having a first combustor and a second combustor in fluid communi...