US Patent Issued to EQUINOR ENERGY AS on June 17 for "Floating wind turbine control below rated wind speed" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,723, issued on June 17, was assigned to EQUINOR ENERGY AS (Stavanger, Norway).

"Floating wind turbine control below rated wind speed" was invented by Bjorn Skaare (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion controller for a floating wind turbine including a number of rotor blades is provided. The motion controller is arranged to adjust the blade pitch of each rotor blade when the floating wind turbine is operating in winds below the rated wind speed so as to create a net force that damps a surge motion of the floating wind turbine. Also provided is a method of damping the motion of a floating wind turbine and a wind tu...