ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,381, issued on March 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Gas mixing device and moving object" was invented by Azuki Ichikawa (Wako, Japan), Yuichi Fukuchi (Wako, Japan), Hikari Hirayanagi (Wako, Japan) and Takuya Kubota (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas mixing device for a moving object including a discharge flow path that discharges an exhaust gas from a gas turbine engine. The discharge flow path includes a tubular portion, a communication passage that allows an inside of the tubular portion and the gas turbine engine to communicate with each other, and a plurality of guide portions that extend radiall...