ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,582, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).

"Fuel delivery" was invented by Craig W Bemment (Derby, Great Britain), Benjamin J Keeler (Derby, Great Britain), Paul W Ferra (Derby, Great Britain), Alastair G Hobday (Derby, Great Britain), Kevin R McNally (Derby, Great Britain), Andrea Minelli (Derby, Great Britain) and Martin K Yates (Northamptonshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method of determining one or more fuel characteristics of an aviation fuel suitable for powering a gas turbine engine of an aircraft, the method comprising: determining a mass of a fuel b...