ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,878, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gas turbine combustor with less combustable fuel and highly combustible fuel ratio control" was invented by Kenji Miyamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Sosuke Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Taku Egawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomo Kawakami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine combustor according to at least one embodiment, includes: a less combustible fuel flow control part for controlling, independently of each other, amounts of less combustible fuel supplied to a first fuel injector and a second fuel injector; a highly combustible fuel flow co...