ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,606, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Method for controlling a combustion device" was invented by Eberhard Deuker (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany) and Benedict Kriegler (Mulheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a combustion process in a gas turbine wherein a combustion chamber, a control device storing a calculation model of the combustion process, and an exhaust air measurement device are used. A permissible limit value for nitrogen oxides and for carbon monoxide as pollutants is set. The actual value of at least one of the two polluta...