US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on Aug. 11 for "Controlling an energy storage device" (British, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,467, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Controlling an energy storage device" was invented by Paul Brian Brogan (Killearn, Great Britain) and Thyge Knueppel (Vaerlose, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of controlling an energy storage device arranged to provide frequency support for an AC power system, the method including: setting an amount of energy stored in the energy storage device depending on a power system frequency of the AC power in the AC power system."

The patent was filed on April 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/610,461.

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