US Patent Issued to Nordex Energy on Aug. 4 for "Method for yaw control of a wind turbine and a wind turbine having a yaw control" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,753, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for yaw control of a wind turbine and a wind turbine having a yaw control" was invented by Ulrich Harms (Hamburg, Germany), Jan Gellermann (Dinslaken, Germany), Pablo Gil (Sarriguren, Spain), Jorg Schwarte (Rostock, Germany) and Steffen Meier (Rostock, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for yaw control of a wind turbine. The wind turbine includes a wind turbine controller, a regular power supply to supply the wind turbine with electric power in case of a normal mode of operation, and a power backup system to supply the wind tur...