US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Feb. 3 for "Controllable power backup system for wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,451, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Controllable power backup system for wind turbine" was invented by Morten Bagger Sogaard (Thisted, Denmark), Niels Erik Danielsen (Brabrand, Denmark), Alun Jones (Horning, Denmark) and Carsten Lindgaard Jensen (Silkeborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a wind turbine comprising an internal power supply grid for distributing power to a number of power consuming units of the wind turbine, the wind turbine further comprising a power backup system connected to the internal power supply grid for supplying power to s...