US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Sept. 29 for "System and method for controlling a wind turbine based on an estimated rotor azimuth" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,719, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for controlling a wind turbine based on an estimated rotor azimuth" was invented by Ian Couchman (Horley, Great Britain), Till Hoffmann (Osnabrueck, Germany) and Thomas Franklin Perley (Bluffton, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a wind turbine includes receiving, via a control system, at least one speed condition of a drivetrain of the wind turbine from a first sensor. The method also includes receiving, via the control system, a pulse from a second sensor mounted within a nacelle of th...