US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Renovables Espana on Sept. 9 for "System and method for controlling a wind turbine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,780, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GE Vernova Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"System and method for controlling a wind turbine" was invented by Xu Fu (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Hema Kumari Achanta (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Satya Mohan Vamsi Andalam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for controlling a wind turbine. Accordingly, a component of the wind turbine is monitored by at least one sensor of a sensor system. An output is received from the sensor system which indicates a fault with the sensor. A fault accommodation response is generated by a fault module. The fault accommo...