US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on March 17 for "Method of restarting a wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,937, issued on March 17, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Method of restarting a wind turbine" was invented by Samuel Hawkins (Vejle, Denmark) and Christian Joachim Krogh (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a wind turbine is provided, including the steps of detecting a power-on time (TAP_on) at which auxiliary power becomes available after an absence of auxiliary power; determining, at power-on time (TAP_on), the elapsed time (Telapsed) since a dryness requirement of the wind turbine was satisfied; and subsequently initiating a wind turbine start-up procedure...