US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on April 29 for "Controlling offshore wind turbines regarding a damping action" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,961, issued on April 29, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Controlling offshore wind turbines regarding a damping action" was invented by Johannes Gerhardes Wardjan Alberts (Brondby Strand, Denmark), Safak Burak Altun (Harlev J, Denmark) and Carlo Tibaldi (Kobenhavn, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling plural offshore wind turbines regarding a mechanical oscillation damping action is provided, the method including: obtaining wave characteristic information indicating a characteristic of at least one sea wave; obtaining wind turbine operational state information of the pl...