US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Optimizing energy production by a wind turbine having shadow energy generator" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,031, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing energy production by a wind turbine having shadow energy generator" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India) and Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for optimizing energy production by a wind turbine having shadow energy generator are provided. Aspects include obtaining a geographic location of the wind turbine and a weather forecast for the geographic location. Aspects also include calculating an estimated wind energy...