US Patent Issued to South China University of Technology & Electric Power Research Institute of China Southern Power Grid on March 3 for "Grid-forming control method for offshore wind turbine" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,744, issued on March 3, was assigned to South China University of Technology & Electric Power Research Institute of China Southern Power Grid Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).

"Grid-forming control method for offshore wind turbine" was invented by Huangqing Xiao (Guangzhou, China), Xiaowei Huang (Guangzhou, China), Yan Li (Guangzhou, China), Weihuang Huang (Guangzhou, China), Dongxiao Cai (Guangzhou, China) and Faxi Peng (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is grid-forming control method for an offshore wind turbine, including the following steps: obtaining a grid voltage and current at a grid connection point of a w...