ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,756, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Method of operating a wind turbine" was invented by Malik Ali Zaib Khokhar (Aalborg, Denmark) and Xavier Vives Jaume (Brande, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a wind turbine is provided. A controller is configured to activate or deactivate each of two or more distinct control features, each control feature changing the operating characteristic of the wind turbine and having an impact on at least one of lifetime and energy production. The method includes determining a type of optimization parameter and an optimizat...