ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,794, issued on June 24, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Mitigating standstill vibrations of a wind turbine" was invented by Samuel Hawkins (Vejle, Denmark) and Jesper Winther Staerdahl (Sunds, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mitigating a vibration of a wind turbine not receiving power from to a utility grid includes: receiving power from an energy storage system of the wind turbine; utilizing the power received from the energy storage system: to detect a wind direction and to adjust an orientation of the rotor axis of a rotor shaft, if a criterion is satisfied taking into acc...