US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on June 24 for "Position observer synchronization for three-phase generators" (British, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,445, issued on June 24, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Position observer synchronization for three-phase generators" was invented by Nuno Miguel Amaral Freire (Brande, Denmark), Paul Godridge (Cheadle, Great Britain) and Zhan-Yuan Wu (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller, a wind turbine and a method of operating an electrical synchronous machine, includes a rotor and a stator having a first winding set, the method including: using a first position observer configured to observe the first winding set in order to observe a first value of the rotor position; synchr...