US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Sept. 8 for "Techniques to provide improved wind input for operating offshore wind turbines" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,664, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Techniques to provide improved wind input for operating offshore wind turbines" was invented by Ahmed Aziz Ezzat (East Brunswick, N.J.), Feng Ye (Piscataway, N.J.), Joseph F. Brodie (Ephrata, N.J.) and Travis Miles (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for operating a wind farm include setting an area of interest, a forecast interval, and a maximum lag time for using mesoscale forecasts. Mesoscale forecasts are collected for a training time interval TT at model grid locations. TT is at least ten times the...