US Patent Issued to Nordex Energy on June 17 for "Method for operating a wind turbine and wind turbine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,724, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a wind turbine and wind turbine" was invented by Detlef Drossel (Norderstedt, Germany), Bjorn Phan-Graebitz (Hamburg, Germany) and Sarah Muller (Hungenroth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method is for operating a wind turbine having a wind turbine component and a setting system for executing at least two different measures for reducing the likelihood of overloading the component. First trigger information is provided, which is representative of whether the likelihood of overloading the wind turbine component exceed...