ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,547, issued on March 11, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Identifying recurrent free-flow wind disturbances associated with a wind turbine" was invented by Goncalo Artur Duarte Pereira (Leca do Balio, Portugal), Jens Van Schelve (Oporto, Portugal) and Johnny Nielsen (Svenstrup J, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of identifying recurrent free-flow wind disturbances associated with a wind turbine. The method comprises monitoring a signal indicative of a parameter associated with operation of the wind turbine, determining an expected signal of the parameter based on the...