ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,522, issued on March 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Burner assembly, gas turbine combustor, and gas turbine" was invented by Shinichi Fukuba (Tokyo), Satoshi Takiguchi (Tokyo), Keisuke Miura (Tokyo), Tomohiro Asai (Tokyo), Kenji Miyamoto (Yokohama, Japan), Tomo Kawakami (Yokohama, Japan), Kenta Taniguchi (Yokohama, Japan) and Katsuyoshi Tada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A burner assembly includes a plurality of burners for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: at least one fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; and a mixing passage into which the fuel injected from the ...