US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on June 23 for "Inflatable component for service or installation of a wind turbine module" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,992, issued on June 23, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Inflatable component for service or installation of a wind turbine module" was invented by Erik Dahl Andersen (Vildbjerg, Denmark), Thomas Justmi Gade Soerensen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Carsten Keller Hansen (Herning, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine arrangement, that includes an inflatable component disposed within a hollow section of a wind turbine blade. The inflatable component is a platform usable during service and/or installation of a wind turbine module. The inflatable component includes an inflation structure wi...