ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,720, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Wind turbine replacement schedule" was invented by Juergen Herp (Odense M, Denmark), Niels Lovmand Pedersen (Gedved, Denmark) and Benedikt Wiese (Odense C, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method and arrangement of estimating replacement schedule of a, in particular mechanical, component of a wind turbine, the method comprising: estimating remaining producible energy until this component is to be replaced."

The patent was filed on June 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/613,534.

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