ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,875, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) (Chennai, India).

"System and method to predict and control blowout in combustion systems" was invented by Sujith Raman Pillai Indusekharan Nair (Chennai, India), Ankan Banerjee (Chennai, India) and Induja Pavithran (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses systems and methods for predicting and controlling lean blowout in combustion systems such as turbines, engines and combustors. The system 100 is configured to detect and predict time of occurrence of blowout using a computer 105 and to take control action by a con...