ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,052, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).
"Wind farm wake control activation method" was invented by Mahmood Mirzaei (Skovlunde, Denmark) and Jacob Deleuran Grunnet (Tranbjerg J, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling a yaw offset of a plurality of wind turbines. The method uses a decision function which generates an activation parameter for determining if the yaw offset control of a specific wind turbine should be enabled or disabled. The decision function depends on two or more variables comprising a wind direction variable indicative of th...