ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,074, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to LM Wind Power A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Manufacturing of wind turbine blade spar cap" was invented by Mahdi Baviloliaie (Kolding, Denmark), Rama Razeghi (Eastleigh, Great Britain), Michael Koefoed (Kolding, Denmark), Harry Alkemade (DH Heerhugowaard, Netherlands), Manoj Ramdas Kharate (Nelamangala Taluk, India) and Kiran Manikarnika (Kolding, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a fibre-reinforced spar cap (45) for a wind turbine blade. A plurality of pultruded fibre plates (70) is arranged in a spar cap mould (62) to form a stacked ar...