ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,030, issued on March 4, was assigned to INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED (Mumbai, India).
"Additized DME/LPG fuel for improving combustion efficiency" was invented by Koushik Bhowmik (Faridabad, India), Ruchi Jain (Faridabad, India), Jyotiranjan Ota (Faridabad, India), Samik Kumar Hait (Faridabad, India), Chandrasekaran Kannan (Faridabad, India) and Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar (Faridabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an additized blended fuel composition comprising of 97 to 50 weight % of liquified petroleum gas (LPG); 3 to 50 weight % of dimethyl ether (DME); and a nanocatalyst. More particul...