US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Nov. 4 for "System and method for optimizing wind farm performance using unmanned aerial vehicles" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,619, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for optimizing wind farm performance using unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Scott Charles Evans (Burnt Hills, N.Y.), Samual Bryan Shartzer (Greenville, S.C.), Stefan Kern (Munich), Tapan Ravin Shah (Los Altos, Calif.) and Anveshi Charuvaka (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing performance of a wind farm having at least one wind turbine includes maneuvering a first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having at least one sensor to a first location near the at least one wind turbine of ...