US Patent Issued to Solar Turbines on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for controlling an exhaust system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,442, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Solar Turbines Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for controlling an exhaust system" was invented by Zachary Fitterer (San Diego), Aditya Gadkari (Maharashtra, India), James Underwood (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Sindhu Penna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of diluting one or more exhaust gases of a gas turbine engine system includes a number of steps. The gas turbine engine system includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The method includes determining if fuel is flowing to the combustor of the gas turbine engine system, detecting a flameout condition withi...