US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Sept. 16 for "System and method for controlling a speed of a wind turbine" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,288, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a wind turbine includes receiving, via a control system, at least one speed measurement from at least one sensor on a drivetrain of the wind turbine. The method also includes receiving, via the control system, at least one rate gyroscope speed measurement from at least one rate gyroscop...