US Patent Issued to Nordex Energy on March 17 for "Segment and system for a Scruton helix, Scruton helix, tower and method for mounting a Scruton helix" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,940, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Segment and system for a Scruton helix, Scruton helix, tower and method for mounting a Scruton helix" was invented by Dorothea Dikty (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segment for a Scruton helix includes: a segment body, a coupling device on the segment body for coupling the segment to a further segment for the Scruton helix, a push-on device on the segment body for coupling the segment to a rope. Also disclosed are a system for a Scruton helix, a Scruton helix, a tower for a wind turbine, and a method for mounting a Scruton heli...