US Patent Issued to Norsepower on May 26 for "Control method for a wind propulsion device on a vessel" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,189, issued on May 26, was assigned to Norsepower Oy Ltd (Heslinki, Finland).

"Control method for a wind propulsion device on a vessel" was invented by Roope Savolainen (Helsinki), Ville Paakkari (Helsinki), Juha Manninen (Helsinki) and Jarkko Vainamo (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a wind propulsion device arranged on a vessel includes providing pressure information from a first pressure sensor arranged on a surface of the wind propulsion device, estimating pressure distribution on the surface of the wind propulsion device based on the pressure information from the first pressure sensor, provid...