US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Oct. 21 for "System and method for monitoring vibrations in a drivetrain of a wind turbine" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,948, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for monitoring vibrations in a drivetrain of a wind turbine" was invented by Ian Couchman (Horley, Great Britain), Till Hoffmann (Osnabrueck, Germany) and Thomas Franklin Perley (Bluffton, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for damping drivetrain vibrations of a wind turbine. The drivetrain has, at least, a rotor and a generator. The method includes receiving a first rotational speed signal at a first location along the drivetrain, the first rotational speed signal being a proxy for rotor speed of the roto...