US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 26 for "Method for starting up a wind turbine" (Spanish, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,694, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY S.L. (Sarriguren, Spain).

"Method for starting up a wind turbine" was invented by Esteban Belmonte de Udaondo (Pamplona, Spain), Javier Garces Quilez (Navarra, Spain), Dennis Stachniuk Jensen (Brande, Denmark), Stephane Munch (Madrid) and Aitor Saenz Aguirre (Guipuzkoa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for starting up a wind turbine for generating electrical power is provided, wherein ice accretion is on at least one blade of a rotor of the wind turbine and wherein the at least one blade has a variable pitch angle, the method ...