US Patent Issued to Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea on Sept. 29 for "Model-based predictive control method for structural load reduction in wind turbines" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,394, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Leioa, Spain).

"Model-based predictive control method for structural load reduction in wind turbines" was invented by Rafael Barcena Ruiz (Bilbao, Spain) and Ainhoa Etxebarria Egizabal (Bilbao, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Model-based predictive control method (MPC) for the reduction of structural load in wind turbines comprising: exclusively proposing a single internal linear model for the MPC for the entire operating range of the turbine; obtaining the adjustable parameters of the linear internal model from the experimental...