ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,577, issued on July 7, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for fuel selection for combustion devices" was invented by Jorge Miguel Gamboa Revilla (Oxnard, Calif.), Troy Edward Trant (Montgomery, Ala.), Amin Monfared (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Bo Gao (Camarillo, Calif.), Babak Bagheri (Oxnard, Calif.) and Sergio Fernando Montalgo Salazar (Oxnard, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion system configured to receive fuel from a plurality of fuel sources, wherein the combustion system includes a burner, a shutter, a fuel selector, and an electronic controller configured to receive an indication ...