US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Dec. 23 for "Wind turbine blade with leeward reinforcement structures and windward reinforcement structures" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,996, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Wind turbine blade with leeward reinforcement structures and windward reinforcement structures" was invented by Gurmukh Singh (Skjern, Denmark) and Rens Christiaan Verhoef (Ringkobing, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a blade for a wind turbine, where the blade extends in a lengthwise direction between a root end and a tip end of the blade. The blade comprises a leeward shell portion and a windward shell portion, each of the shell portions defining respective inner and outer surfaces extending in a chordwise di...