ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,233, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Turbine assembly and method for assembling turbine assembly" was invented by Takayoshi Iijima (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Yamasue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuma Matsuo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This turbine assembly comprises: a first main body provided with a first protrusion constituting a part of an annular body formed annularly around an axis and protruding radially outward and horizontally from the annular body, and a second protrusion projecting radially outward from a position different from that of the first protrusion in the ci...