US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 16 for "Turbine engine including a steam system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,260, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a steam system" was invented by Rakshit Tirumala (Bengaluru, India), Sushilkumar Shevakari (Bengaluru, India), Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Jeffrey D. Rambo (Mason, Ohio), Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bengaluru, India) and Vaibhav M. Deshmukh (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine for an aircraft including a turbo-engine, a fan having a fan shaft coupled to the turbo-engine, and a steam system. The steam system is fluidly coupled to a core air flow path at a plurality of steam injection locations t...