ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,697, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for prioritized wake steering of wind turbines in a wind farm" was invented by Scott Charles Evans (Burnt Hills, N.Y.), Samuel Bryan Shartzer (Greenville, S.C.), Tapan Ravin Shah (Los Altos, Calif.), Upasana R (Bengaluru, India) and Nihaar Rajesh Shah (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method operate a wind farm having a plurality of wind turbines, and include determining a wind direction of a wind affecting the wind farm. Based on the wind direction, at least one upwind turbine is iden...