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Ronald James Chila

GE: 45 patents #323 of 36,430Top 1%
Overall (All Time): #64,431 of 4,157,543Top 2%
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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12305860 Bundled tube fuel nozzle assembly for gas turbine combustor Michael John Hughes, Jonathan Dwight Berry, Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay, Heath Michael Ostebee 2025-05-20
11859818 Systems and methods for variable microchannel combustor liner cooling Scott Robert Simmons 2024-01-02
10982593 System and method for combusting liquid fuel in a gas turbine combustor with staged combustion Mark William Pinson, Baifang Zuo, Lucas John Stoia, Timothy James Purcell 2021-04-20
10684016 Aft frame assembly for gas turbine transition piece Scott Robert Simmons, Kevin Weston McMahan, Wei Chen, Charles L. Davis 2020-06-16
10578306 Liquid fuel cartridge unit for gas turbine combustor and method of assembly Timothy James Purcell, Lucas John Stoia 2020-03-03
9822649 Integrated combustor and stage 1 nozzle in a gas turbine and method Lewis Berkley Davis, Jr., Willy Steve Ziminsky, Kevin Weston McMahan, Sergey Anatolievich Meshkov 2017-11-21
9765973 System and method for tube level air flow conditioning Patrick Benedict Melton, Gregory Allen Boardman, James Harold Westmoreland 2017-09-19
9759425 System and method having multi-tube fuel nozzle with multiple fuel injectors James Harold Westmoreland, Gregory Allen Boardman, Patrick Benedict Melton 2017-09-12
9671112 Air diffuser for a head end of a combustor Gregory Allen Boardman, James Harold Westmoreland 2017-06-06
9650959 Fuel-air mixing system with mixing chambers of various lengths for gas turbine system Gregory Allen Boardman, Patrick Benedict Melton, James Harold Westmoreland, Sarah Lori Crothers 2017-05-16
9249679 Impingement sleeve and methods for designing and forming impingement sleeve Matthew Paul Berkebile, Jerome David Brown, Patrick Benedict Melton, Russell DeForest, David William Cihlar +2 more 2016-02-02
9243506 Methods and systems for cooling a transition nozzle Kevin Weston McMahan, David Richard Johns 2016-01-26
9217373 Fuel nozzle for reducing modal coupling of combustion dynamics Gregory Allen Boardman, James Harold Westmoreland, Sarah Lori Crothers 2015-12-22
9212823 Systems and methods for suppressing combustion driven pressure fluctuations with a premix combustor having multiple premix times Gregory Allen Boardman, Mark Allan Hadley, Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay, Sarah Lori Crothers 2015-12-15
9182123 Combustor fuel nozzle and method for supplying fuel to a combustor Gregory Allen Boardman, Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay 2015-11-10
9182122 Combustor and method for supplying flow to a combustor John M. Matthews, Keith Cletus Belsom 2015-11-10
9115808 Transition piece seal assembly for a turbomachine Scott Robert Simmons 2015-08-25
9074773 Combustor assembly with trapped vortex cavity Gregory Allen Boardman, Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay 2015-07-07
9038396 Cooling apparatus for combustor transition piece David Purnell 2015-05-26
8966910 Methods and systems for cooling a transition nozzle Kevin Weston McMahan, David Richard Johns 2015-03-03
8919127 System and method for flow control in gas turbine engine Patrick Benedict Melton, Abdul Rafey Khan, Carolyn Ashley Antoniono 2014-12-30
8915087 Methods and systems for transferring heat from a transition nozzle Kevin Weston McMahan, David Richard Johns 2014-12-23
8904802 Turbomachine combustor assembly including a vortex modification system Sridhar Venkat Kodukulla, Sarah Lori Crothers, Shreekrishna Rao, Shivakumar Srinivasan 2014-12-09
8887508 Impingement sleeve and methods for designing and forming impingement sleeve Jerome David Brown, Patrick Benedict Melton, Russell DeForest, David William Cihlar, Matthew Paul Berkebile +2 more 2014-11-18
8826667 System and method for flow control in gas turbine engine Patrick Benedict Melton, Bradley Donald Crawley, David William Cihlar, Robert Joseph Rohrssen 2014-09-09