US Patent Issued to Nordex Energy on Feb. 3 for "Method for operating a wind turbine and wind turbine" (German, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,600, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a wind turbine and wind turbine" was invented by Michael Niss (Arden, Denmark), Detlef Drossel (Norderstedt, Germany), Jacob Laborenz (Hannover, Germany), Valeri Buller (Horstel, Germany) and Bjorn Phan-Graebitz (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, the method is for operating a wind turbine having a rotor with at least one rotor blade and a setting system which is configured to change the operation of the wind turbine. The method includes a step in which first trigger information is provide...