US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on May 13 for "System and method to maximize power production by wind turbines" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,811, issued on May 13, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"System and method to maximize power production by wind turbines" was invented by Stefano Leonardi (Richardson, Texas), Mario Rotea (Allen, Texas), Umberto Ciri (Dallas) and Federico Bernardoni (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enabling control of wind turbines is provided. The method comprises receiving power production signals from wind turbines comprising a wind farm and estimating wake travel times from upstream wind turbines to downstream turbines. Correlations of the power production signals are calculated among all pai...