ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,451, issued on July 21, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Wind turbine blade with coupling device designed to automatically disengage actuator" was invented by Soeren Christiansen (Stovring, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test arrangement for fatigue testing a wind turbine blade, wherein a first section of the wind turbine blade is attached to a fixing device and wherein a second section of the wind turbine blade is attached to an excitation device, wherein the excitation device includes an actuator and a coupling device that couples the second section to the actuator in an engaged stat...