US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Oct. 6 for "System and method for counting fatigue-related winged animal stops of a wind turbine" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,738, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for counting fatigue-related winged animal stops of a wind turbine" was invented by Darren John Danielsen (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Hammad Ahmad (Gray Court, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of counting winged animal stops of a wind turbine includes receiving, via a controller of the wind turbine, a fatigue-related loading parameter of the wind turbine. The method also includes determining, via the controller, whether or not to count the winged animal stops of the wind turbine based, at least in part, on th...