ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,463, issued on July 14, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Wind turbine generator rotor arrangement" was invented by Marcin Blazniak Andreasen (Hovedgard, Denmark), Rajarao Punnamaraju Lova (Karnataka, India), Lars Langvardt Krogh (Ega, Denmark) and Anoop Jassal (Hojbjerg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present invention relate to a rotor arrangement (42) for a wind turbine generator (24). The rotor arrangement (42) comprises a cylindrical ring structure (46) arranged to rotate around a rotational axis. The cylindrical ring structure (46) comprises: a plurality of ring-shaped permane...