US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on Feb. 10 for "Operating a wind turbine for wake control" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,286, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Operating a wind turbine for wake control" was invented by Thomas Esbensen (Herning, Denmark), Pieter M. O. Gebraad (Kobenhavn, Denmark) and Gustav Hoegh (Vejle, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a wind turbine for controlling wake wherein the wind turbine includes at least a rotor blade and a plurality of aerodynamic devices for influencing the airflow flowing on the rotor blade, the aerodynamic device being movable between at least a respective first configuration and a second respective configuration, the meth...