US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Dec. 2 for "Whirling mode control of a wind turbine based on tower measurements" (Danish, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,827, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Whirling mode control of a wind turbine based on tower measurements" was invented by Alexander Duncan Giles (Oporto, Portugal) and Jesper Sandberg Thomsen (Hadsten, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to adjusting pitch of rotor blades of a wind turbine. An acceleration signal is received from a wind turbine acceleration sensor and is indicative of side-to-side motion of the wind turbine tower. A first component in a fixed coordinate frame of the wind turbine is determined based on the received acceleration signal. The first c...