US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on Oct. 7 for "Hydrogen fuelled gas turbine engine" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,663, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).

"Hydrogen fuelled gas turbine engine" was invented by Martin K Yates (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel system for a gas turbine engine configured to combust hydrogen fuel. The fuel system includes a main fuel conduit, a fuel pump configured to operate on hydrogen within fuel conduit to provide pressurised fuel to core combustor of gas turbine engine, an auxiliary combustor downstream in fuel flow of fuel pump, and configured to combust a portion of fuel diverted from main fuel conduit and to heat remainder of fuel in main fuel conduit, and a fue...