ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,469, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GE Vernova Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Methods for fast power ramp up, controllers and wind turbines" was invented by Christoph Schulten (Salzbergen, Germany), Nithya Anand (Bengaluru, India), Miriam Monros Garrigosa (Barcelona, Spain) and Marta Lopez Gonzalez (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods (100, 200) for ramping up the power output of a wind turbine (10). A method (100) comprises increasing (110) electric power output from an initial power value (61) at a first power ramp rate (63); and when reaching an intermediate po...