ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,054, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Method of operating a wind turbine" was invented by 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 method includes steps of monitoring the temperature of a component of the wind turbine to obtain a temperature progression for that component; determining the gradient of the temperature progression; and curtailing the power output of the wind turbine on the basis of the temperature progression gradient. The disclosed further describes a wind turbine including a curtail...