US Patent Issued to GTL on May 20 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for optimizing acoustic wave confinement to increase combustion efficiency" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,858, issued on May 20, was assigned to GTL COMPANY (Tullahoma, Tenn.).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for optimizing acoustic wave confinement to increase combustion efficiency" was invented by Eric Jacob (Tullahoma, Tenn.), Joshua Batterson (Manchester, Tenn.), Justin Guastaferro (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Paul Gloyer (Tullahoma, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an apparatus. The apparatus comprises an injector coupled to a head portion of a combustion chamber, the injector comprising a plurality of injector elements distributed away from an inner annulus and in an outer annulus. A geometry of combustion c...