ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,315, issued on July 7, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Stud system for connecting flanges" was invented by Mark Klaassen (Voorburg, Netherlands) and Erwin de Jong (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a stud system for connecting a first flange to a second flange of a tower, the flanges including arrangements of openings in the first flange corresponding to arrangements of threaded blind openings in the second flange, with a predefined opening-length and a predefined opening-diameter of the openings in the first flange and a predefined non-threaded length and a prede...