US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on April 29 for "Control of a multi-rotor wind turbine system using local MPC controllers" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,960, issued on April 29, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Control of a multi-rotor wind turbine system using local MPC controllers" was invented by Julio Xavier Vianna Neto (Aarhus N, Denmark) and Jon Sowman (Aarhus N, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control of a multi-rotor wind turbine system. A local controller is arranged for each wind turbine module and implementing a local model predictive control (MPC) routine. A central controller is arranged to determine a set of operational constraints of the wind turbine modules. Based on a current operational state of the wind turbine module and the set ...