ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,569, issued on March 31, was assigned to CAD Wind Turbines LLC (Fort Myers, Fla.).
"Wind turbine assembly and method of assembling a wind turbine assembly" was invented by Russell T. Davis (Fort Myers, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine assembly includes a falling weight system to store potential energy within the wind turbine assembly. The falling weight system utilizes a pair of gears that can rotate to raise and lower weights within a cavity of the tower section. In addition, an assembly ring that is configured to climb a tower section of a wind turbine assembly may be used to assemble a wind turbine assembly or t...