US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 21 for "Injecting fuel-steam mixture into turbine engine combustor" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,126, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Injecting fuel-steam mixture into turbine engine combustor" was invented by Lance L. Smith (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes a combustor, a fuel injector nozzle and a fuel system. The combustor includes a combustion chamber. The fuel injector nozzle is configured to inject a fuel-steam mixture into the combustion chamber for combustion. The fuel system includes a fuel source, a steam source and a manifold. The manifold is configured to mix fuel received from the fuel source wi...