US Patent Issued to POWER CURVE on Jan. 13 for "Computer system for calculating AEP changes of a wind turbine due to identified structural deterioration of the blades and method of maintaining a wind turbine" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,196, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to POWER CURVE ApS (Aalborg, Denmark).

"Computer system for calculating AEP changes of a wind turbine due to identified structural deterioration of the blades and method of maintaining a wind turbine" was invented by Nicholas Gaudern (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system suitable for estimating the expected change in annual energy production (AEP) of a wind turbine due to structural deterioration of blades of the wind turbine, said computer system being arranged to execute the following steps: loading a dataset representing estimated lift and drag curves at specific ra...