ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,938, issued on March 17, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC DALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS Co. LTD. (Dalian, China).

"Wind power generation apparatus and method" was invented by Zhentang Shi (Dalian, China), Hongyang Zhang (Dalian, China), Cuicui Dong (Dalian, China), Jie Dong (Dalian, China), Linan Tao (Dalian, China) and Jun Li (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wind power generation apparatus has an acquisition unit, a wind turbine, a generator, an electric power storage unit and a controller. The acquisition unit acquires a wind power value. The contro...