ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,112, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Auxiliary power supply" was invented by Samuel Hawkins (Vejle, Denmark) and Rene Salkvist Nielsen (Sunds, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary power supply arrangement of a wind turbine is provided including a standby power supply configured to cover the average power requirements of auxiliary devices of the wind turbine; and an energy storage unit, which energy storage unit is configured to cover transient power requirements of the auxiliary devices and/or to supplement the standby power supply in covering the transient pow...