US Patent Issued to POLYTECH on March 17 for "Lightning protection system" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,943, issued on March 17, was assigned to POLYTECH A/S (Bramming, Denmark).

"Lightning protection system" was invented by Mads Kirkegaard (Bramming, Denmark), Richard Baker (Bramming, Denmark) and Lisa Carloni (Bramming, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightning protection system for a wind turbine blade having-a structural element made of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP). The lightning protection system includes a first down conductor extending from a tip end to a tip connection block and a second down conductor extending from the tip connection block between and along the structural element and a pressure side towards a root...