US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on July 7 for "Cooling a wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,439, issued on July 7, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Cooling a wind turbine" was invented by Thomas Riis Jakobsen (Vejle Ost, Denmark), Michael Staghoj (Ry, Denmark) and Jesper Nyvad (Ega, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system (12) for a wind turbine (2), the cooling system (12) comprising: a fluid circuit (16) arranged to convey a working fluid to and from at least one component (14) of the wind turbine (2), to exchange heat between the working fluid and the component (14); a main pump (26) configured to circulate the working fluid around the fluid circuit (16); and at least one bran...