ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,219, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Components for combustor" was invented by Karthikeyan Sampath (Bengaluru, India), Rimple Rangrej (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Saket Singh (Bengaluru, India), Deepak Ghiya (Bengaluru, India) and Perumallu Vukanti (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a combustor for a turbomachine engine includes a combustion chamber and a component in operable flow with the combustion chamber. The component has a porous structure that defines multiple channels, that are adapted to configure the component as a damper ...