ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,949, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to WindESCo Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods of coordinated yaw control of multiple wind turbines" was invented by Nathan L. Post (Malden, Mass.), Danian Zheng (Boston), Peter Bachant (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mohit Dua (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of autonomous farm-level control and optimization of wind turbines are provided. Exemplary embodiments comprise a site controller running on a site server. The site controller collects and analyzes yaw control data of a plurality of wind turbines and wind direction data relating to the plurality of wind turbines. The site s...