ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,030, issued on Sept. 30.
"Turbine monitoring and maintenance" was invented by Christopher Fraser (London), Thomas Humphries (London) and Ty Burridge-Oakland (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention related to non-thermal renewable energy turbines (20,24,34,38,40), in particular to the monitoring of turbine performance to identify a loss of performance indicative of faults or component degradation. The method involves comparison of measured power from a target turbine (20) with a predicted value for same turbine. The predicted value is calculated using the output from a plurality of other turbines (24,34,38,40) fr...