US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Renovables Espana on July 28 for "Methods for operating wind turbines and charging auxiliary power sources" (Spanish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,833, issued on July 28, was assigned to GE Vernova Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Methods for operating wind turbines and charging auxiliary power sources" was invented by Marc Sala Lluma (Barcelona, Spain), Benjamin Palethorpe (Nantes, France) and Luca Vita (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for operating wind turbines (10) and charging one or more auxiliary power sources (84) for providing auxiliary power to one or more wind turbines (10). A method comprises pitching the wind turbine blades (22) to a predetermined idling pitch angle such that the wind turbine gene...