US Patent Issued to IDENTIFLIGHT INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 21 for "Bird or bat detection and identification for wind turbine risk mitigation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,570, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to IDENTIFLIGHT INTERNATIONAL LLC (Louisville, Colo.).

"Bird or bat detection and identification for wind turbine risk mitigation" was invented by Eric S. Wenger (Lakewood, Colo.), Andrew G. Oliver (Longmont, Colo.) and Victor L. Babbitt (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated system for mitigating risk from a wind turbine includes a plurality of optical imaging sensors. A controller receives and analyzes images from the optical imaging sensors to automatically send a signal to curtail operation of the wind turbine to a predetermined risk mitigating level when the controller d...