US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Feb. 17 for "Method for controlling a yaw system of a wind turbine" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,411, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Method for controlling a yaw system of a wind turbine" was invented by Frank Hinken (Salzbergen, Germany), Hartmut Scholte-Wassink (Salzbergen, Germany), Mattia D'Angelo (Barcelona, Spain) and Sebastian Wiemer (Wedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method (100) for operating a yaw system of a wind turbine (10), the yaw system comprising a yaw bearing (98), an annular gear (31) and a plurality of yaw drives (35) including a motor (33) with a motor brake (91), a gearbox (37) and a pinion (39)...