ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,292, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Method of controlling a wind turbine" was invented by Samuel Hawkins (Vejle, Denmark) and Christian Joachim Krogh (Aarhus, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a wind turbine is provided including at least one fan-cooled unit with a fan adapted to circulate air inside a housing of the fan-cooled unit, which method includes operating the fan-cooled unit in a dryout mode by: disabling a thermal energy reduction the fan-cooled unit, which thermal energy reduction means is adapted to reduce thermal energy of air insid...