ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,180, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Siemens Gamsea Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Method for manufacturing a preform building element and oven" was invented by Mogens Nielsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Enok Johannes Haahr Skjoelstrup (Aalborg Ost, Denmark) and Samuel Robert van Oosterom (Hamilton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a preform building element used for building a rotor blade of a wind turbine is provided. A plurality of components is arranged at least partly overlappingly in a component stack on a surface of a carrier, wherein the component stack includes a plurality of section...