ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,497, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Method and apparatus for computer-implemented monitoring of energy production of a renewable energy generating system" was invented by Julien Berbach (Hamburg, Germany), Bert Gollnick (Hamburg, Germany), Jon Gould (Hamburg, Germany) and Fabian Walz (Buchholz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a renewable energy generating system is provided. The renewable energy generating system includes the following steps: -determining, by a first energy meter, a produced energy amount of the renewable energy generating system in the pre...