US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Aug. 12 for "Generator unit and method for operating a generator unit in a power plant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,261, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Generator unit and method for operating a generator unit in a power plant" was invented by Klaus Ehrhardt (Schwaig, Germany), Lothar Pistor (Wendelstein, Germany), Wieland Uecker (Spardorf, Germany) and Ronald Volzke (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator unit as a component of a power plant connected to the electrical grid, includes a first generator with a rotor connected to a drive turbine via a shaft, a second generator and a three-winding high-voltage transformer. The first generator is an active power generator and the...