ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,578, issued on May 20, was assigned to Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).
"Ignition system for power generation engine" was invented by Bidhan Dam (Zeeland, Mich.), Logan Oonk (Zeeland, Mich.), Dan Huber (Zeeland, Mich.), Vinay Prasad (Zeeland, Mich.) and Sudipa Sarker (Zeeland, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes igniting an igniter stage configured to ignite combustion in a turbine combustor assembly, receiving pressure signals from a pressure sensor configured to sense pressure in the turbine combustor assembly, and controlli...