ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,627, issued on July 15, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Chemistries, application, and delivery methods for coke inhibition in fuel and oil systems" was invented by Narayanan Janakiraman (Bengaluru, India), Arundhati Sengupta (Bengaluru, India), Lawrence B. Kool (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Karthick Gourishankar (Bengaluru, India) and Sanjay Kumar Sondhi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organometallic chemistry-based compound for preventing coke formation in a hydrocarbon fluid system. The organometallic chemistry-based compound includes a coordination complex that interrupts an autoxidative pat...