US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on May 27 for "Controlling a wind turbine with respect to dynamic stability" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,037, issued on May 27, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Controlling a wind turbine with respect to dynamic stability" was invented by Philippe Couturier (Lafayette, Colo.), David Molitor (Longmont, Colo.) and Dillon Volk (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a wind turbine having a tower and a rotor at which plural rotor blades are mounted includes: determining, in particular in real time, a damping characteristic of at least one vibration mode related to the wind turbine; and controlling the wind turbine based on damping characteristic."

The patent was filed ...