US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on Aug. 11 for "Precise determination of angular position of a wind turbine nacelle" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,111, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Precise determination of angular position of a wind turbine nacelle" was invented by Soeren Majdal Kaarsholm (Copenhagen N, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an angular position of a nacelle of a wind turbine is provided, the nacelle being rotatably mounted at an upper end of a tower, the lower end of the tower being supported by a foundation. The method includes obtaining and storing a foundation angular position corresponding to a foundation reference point, the foundation angular position being relative to t...