US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on Oct. 7 for "Wind turbine performance determination and control" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,700, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Wind turbine performance determination and control" was invented by Zijun Zhang (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Luoxiao Yang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining wind turbine performance. The computer-implemented method includes generating a digital image based on operation data of a wind turbine. The operation data includes wind speed data and associated power output data. The computer-implemented method also includes processing the digital image using a convolutional neural network to obtain...