ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,105, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Combustor and gas turbine" was invented by Keisuke Miura (Tokyo), Katsuyoshi Tada (Tokyo), Keijiro Saito (Tokyo), Tomomi Koganezawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Karishuku (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor includes a plurality of fuel nozzles installed so as to be extended in a direction of a nozzle axis and configured to inject fuel toward one side in the direction of the nozzle axis, a pipe plate having a plurality of air holes formed therein so as to be extended in the direction of the nozzle axis, in which the air hole h...