ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,259, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a water system" was invented by Vaibhav M. Deshmukh (Bengaluru, India), Vaishnav Raghuvaran (Bengaluru, India), Sushilkumar Shevakari (Bengaluru, India), Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bengaluru, India), Rakshit Tirumala (Bengaluru, India) and Jeffrey D. Clements (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a spool with a compressor for providing a compressed air flow to a turbine, a shaft that connects the compressor and a turbine such that the compressor and the turbine rotate together, and a fuel supply. A...