US Patent Issued to General Electric Renovables Espana on July 8 for "Determination of a state of a wind turbine blade" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,238, issued on July 8, was assigned to General Electric Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Determination of a state of a wind turbine blade" was invented by Efren Albisu Iso (Barcelona, Spain), Mauro Grammatico (Barcelona, Spain) and Pedro Arroyo Beltri (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to methods (400; 500; 600) configured for detecting the state of a wind turbine blade (22). The methods (400; 500; 600) comprising receiving (401; 501) load signals from a wind turbine blade (22), determining (402; 503) an energy of the load signal in a first and second frequency and comparing (...