US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on July 8 for "Determining tower to tip clearance for a wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,242, issued on July 8, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Determining tower to tip clearance for a wind turbine" was invented by Johannes Gerhardes Alberts (Brondby Strand, Denmark) and Bjarne Skovmose Kallesoe (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a distance between a rotor blade tip and a tower of a wind turbine includes: estimating the distance based on a strain measurement; measuring the distance; correcting an estimation procedure based on the estimated distance and the measured distance; and deriving a corrected distance based on the corrected estimation p...