US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Renovables Espana, S.L.U. on April 21 for "System and method for detecting and responding to rotor blade damage in a wind turbine" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,163, issued on April 21, was assigned to GE Vernova Renovables Espana, S.L.U. (Barcelona, Spain).

"System and method for detecting and responding to rotor blade damage in a wind turbine" was invented by Mathew Doyle Angel (Greenville, S.C.), Aaron David Honnette (Greenville, S.C.), Carlos Alberto Concha Flores (Greer, S.C.), Jonathan Henry Zalar (Greer, S.C.), Mohammed Yousefhussien (London, Canada) and Aaron Yarbrough (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting and responding to damage in a rotor blade of a wind turbine includes monitoring at least one signal of a pitch actuator of a pitch system of the ...