US Patent Issued to LM Wind Power on May 12 for "Reinforcement of a wind turbine blade" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,677, issued on May 12, was assigned to LM Wind Power A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Reinforcement of a wind turbine blade" was invented by Lars Juhl (Kolding, Denmark), Jesper Hasselbelch Garm (Kolding, Denmark), Danial Ashouri Vajari (Kolding, Denmark) and Steen Mortensen (Kolding, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a to method for reinforcing a wind turbine blade, such as a root end. The root end comprises a first and a second bushing for attaching the wind turbine blade to a wind turbine hub, the bushings being located between an inner sidewall of the root end and an outer sidewall of the root end, the ...