ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,695, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Method of operating a wind turbine" was invented by Uffe Sjolund Freiberg (Vejle Ost, Denmark), Bert Gollnick (Hamburg, Germany) and Xavier Vives Jaume (Brande, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine is operable in plural different operating modes that differ by at least one of lifetime consumption of the wind turbine and energy production by the wind turbine. A sequence of operating modes is determined for a future period of time, wherein an optimization parameter is estim...