ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,090, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LM Wind Power A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Methods of semi-permanently attaching components on a wind turbine rotor blade" was invented by Louis Rondeau (Greenville, S.C.), Scott Iverson Shillig (Greenville, S.C.), Andrew Ross Collier (Greenville, S.C.), Salim Abdallah El-Naaman (Roskilde, Denmark) and Naresh Reddy Kolanu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade assembly of a wind turbine includes a first blade component and a second blade component arranged together at an interface. The interface includes a gap between the blade components. The rotor blade assembly also inclu...