US Patent Issued to General Electric Renovables Espana on March 25 for "System and method for monitoring damage of a bearing for a wind turbine" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,939, issued on March 25, was assigned to General Electric Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"System and method for monitoring damage of a bearing for a wind turbine" was invented by Dhanesh Chandrashekar Pathuvoth (Bengaluru, India) and Vidyashankar Ramasastry Buravalla (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring damage of a slewing ring bearing of a wind turbine includes arranging at least one optical fiber sensor adjacent to or at least partially on at least one of an inner race or an outer race of the slewing ring bearing. Further, the method includes receiving, via a controller, signals from...