US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on May 13 for "Wind turbine comprising reciprocating swept area and method of controlling a wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,808, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Wind turbine comprising reciprocating swept area and method of controlling a wind turbine" was invented by Thomas Esbensen (Herning, Denmark), Gustav Hoegh (Vejle, Denmark) and Kasper Laugesen (Esbjerg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine includes tower, a nacelle mounted at the top of the tower, a rotor mounted rotatable relatively to the nacelle about a rotation axis and includes at least one blade, wherein the blade, when rotating about the rotation axis, is configured to span a swept area, and a control device which is...