US Patent Issued to Wobben Properties on July 21 for "Method for controlling a wind power installation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,152, issued on July 21, was assigned to Wobben Properties GmbH (Aurich, Germany).

"Method for controlling a wind power installation" was invented by Enno von Aswege (GroBefehn, Germany), Stephan Vollack (Aurich, Germany) and Henry Muhlenbrock (Hinte, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for controlling a wind power installation (100) which has rotor blades (108) whose blade angle is adjustable and which can be operated at a variable speed using speed control, wherein the speed control is prepared to control the speed to a variable target speed value, comprising the steps of evaluating a test criterion for predicting an emerg...