US Patent Issued to Concordia Textiles on July 28 for "Textile covering for rotor blades and use of the textile covering" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,667, issued on July 28, was assigned to Concordia Textiles nv (Waregem, Belgium).

"Textile covering for rotor blades and use of the textile covering" was invented by Manu Tuytens (Waregem, Belgium), Carl Baekelandt (Waregem, Belgium), Kurt Inghelbrecht (Waregem, Belgium) and Rik Gekiere (Waregem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a covering for rotor blades comprising a fabric and a protective top layer, the covering having a weight of up to 800 g/m2, the covering having an elongation at break in both a warp and a weft direction of at least 20%, wherein the elongation at break is determined accor...