US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Automated bird detection and targeted activation of ultrasonic bird repeller for wind turbines" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,655, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated bird detection and targeted activation of ultrasonic bird repeller for wind turbines" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Jagabondhu Hazra (HBR Layout 5, India) and Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting and repelling bird species approaching a wind farm, using targeted ultrasonic/sonic frequencies. A zone of vulnerability boundary is set around the wind farm at which bird repellers start responding to instructions to broadcast ultrason...