US Patent Issued to General Electric Renovables Espana on April 15 for "Pitch assembly for a wind turbine having minimized micro-pitching" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,260, issued on April 15, was assigned to General Electric Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Pitch assembly for a wind turbine having minimized micro-pitching" was invented by Dhanesh Chandrashekar Pathuvoth (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pitch assembly for a wind turbine includes a pitch bearing comprising an inner race, an outer race, and a plurality of gear teeth arranged on one of the inner race or the outer race. The pitch assembly further includes a pitch drive mechanism having a pitch drive motor and a primary pitch drive pinion. The primary pitch drive pinion is configured to rotate one of the inne...