US Patent Issued to LM Wind Power on Feb. 10 for "System and method for monitoring wind turbine rotor blades using infrared imaging and machine learning" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,290, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LM Wind Power A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"System and method for monitoring wind turbine rotor blades using infrared imaging and machine learning" was invented by Arpit Jain (Dublin, Calif.), Feng Xue (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Michael John MacDonald (Albany, N.Y.), Xiao Bian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Venkata Vijayaraghava Nalladega (Watervliet, N.Y.) and Gary Anthony Miller (Randers, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a rotor assembly of a wind turbine includes receiving, via an imaging analytics module of a controller, thermal imaging data of the rotor assembly that includes a...