US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on March 18 for "Controlling wind turbine based on wind veer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,063, issued on March 18, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Controlling wind turbine based on wind veer" was invented by Jiarong Hong (New Brighton, Minn.) and Linyue Gao (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, by a control system, from among a plurality of categories, a current category of an incoming wind approaching a wind turbine, and setting, by the control system, a yaw bias of the wind turbine based on the current category. In some examples, the plurality of categories includes two or more wind conditions, such as a first wind condition in which wind conta...