ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,548, issued on April 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for mounting combustor component, combustor component set, hanging jig, and hanging jig set" was invented by Satoru Higuchi (Yokohama, Japan), Shigeharu Yasuda (Yokohama, Japan) and Seiji Kobayashi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this method for mounting a combustor component, a component hanging step for attaching a string material to a hanging jig mounted on a combustor component and hanging the combustor component with the string material together with the hanging jig, and a component mounting step for mounting a mounting f...