US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy on May 6 for "Turbine inlet temperature calculation using acoustics" (Florida, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,338, issued on May 6, was assigned to Siemens Energy Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Turbine inlet temperature calculation using acoustics" was invented by Joshua S. McConkey (Orlando, Fla.), Tao Cui (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Zainul Momin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a turbine inlet temperature for a gas turbine engine includes measuring pressure changes within a combustion section of the gas turbine engine during operation of the gas turbine engine to produce pressure versus time data, extracting a resonant frequency from the pressure versus time data, and calculating the turbine inlet temperatur...