US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on June 23 for "Wind turbine with a nacelle having an offset center of gravity" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,986, issued on June 23, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Wind turbine with a nacelle having an offset center of gravity" was invented by Torben Ladegaard Baun (Skodstrup, Denmark) and Jens Demtroder (Ronde, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine comprising, a tower, a nacelle mounted on the tower, and a rotor defining a rotor axis extending in a vertical center plane and configured for harvesting wind energy by rotation of blades in a rotor rotation direction about the rotor axis. The nacelle comprises a rotor-supporting assembly forming a load path from the rotor to the tower and configur...