US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on May 13 for "Device and method for controlling a wind turbine based on a change element" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,810, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Device and method for controlling a wind turbine based on a change element" was invented by Johannes Gerhardes Wardjan Alberts (Brondby Strand, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control device for controlling a wind turbine, the wind turbine including a rotor and at least one blade being rotatable mounted to the rotor. The control device includes a detecting device being configured to detect an amount of a bending moment of the blade; and a change element having an input and an output, wherein the input is configured to r...