US Patent Issued to NTT on Sept. 15 for "System, method and device for checking blades of wind power plant" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,482, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"System, method and device for checking blades of wind power plant" was invented by Fumiaki Nagase (Musashino, Japan), Yu Ono (Musashino, Japan), Tatsuya Nakatani (Musashino, Japan) and Toshifumi Miyagi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade inspection system includes: a transmitter of electromagnetic waves mounted in a first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); a receiver of electromagnetic waves mounted in a second UAV; at least one processor communicably coupled to the transmitter and the receiver; and a memory storing instructions executable by the at least o...