US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on March 4 for "Electric circuit and wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,185, issued on March 4, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Electric circuit and wind turbine" was invented by Poul Christiansen (Them, Denmark), Anders Erbo R. Jensen (Vejle, Denmark), Aaron Jones (Billund, Denmark) and Haritha Subramanian Kalyanaraman (Horsens, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric circuit providing a ground connection includes at least two brushes and a contact member, wherein each brush and the contact member form a sliding contact, wherein the contact member is connected to a ground potential by at least one of the sliding contacts, wherein at least two of the sli...