ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,024, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co. Ltd. (Yantai, China).

"Turbine engine gas-inlet cooling system and turbine engine apparatus" was invented by Rikui Zhang (Shandong, China), Xincheng Li (Shandong, China), Peng Zhang (Shandong, China) and Zhijie Liu (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine gas-inlet cooling system and a turbine engine apparatus are disclosed. The turbine engine includes a gas-inlet end and a gas-outlet end, and the turbine engine gas-inlet cooling system includes a gas-inlet cooling device. The gas-inlet cooling device includes a gas-inp...