US Patent Issued to Solar Turbines on Nov. 4 for "System and method for detecting and responding to flameout conditions in gas turbine engines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,586, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Solar Turbines Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for detecting and responding to flameout conditions in gas turbine engines" was invented by James Jonathan Underwood (Chula Vista, Calif.), Christopher Jeremy Wiggins (Newhall, Calif.), Nathan James Kirksey (San Diego) and Darrel Patrick Zeltner (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and responding to a flameout condition in a gas turbine engine includes a probe, a spectral data receiver unit, and a flameout relay. The probe detects a radiation from a gaseous content resulting from a combustion reaction within t...