ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,985, issued on May 26, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for operating gas turbine equipment, control device and control program for executing said operating method" was invented by Hisashi Nakahara (Tokyo), Yosuke Eto (Tokyo) and Naoki Nakata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling gas turbine equipment includes: a combustion load command generator configured to determine a combustion load command value, which is a parameter having a positive correlation with an inlet temperature; a flow rate ratio calculator configured to determine a flow rate ratio of fuel supplied to each of a...