ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,677, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Energy generation controller for wind turbine with shadow-effect energy generator(s)" was invented by Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India) and Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy generation control process is provided for a wind turbine with shadow-effect energy generator(s). The control process includes determining, by an energy generation controller, an adjustment to a blade angle of a wind turbine to increase cumulative energy generation over a forecast time...