US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on June 30 for "Wind turbine blade" (Danish, British, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,107, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Wind turbine blade" was invented by Francesco Grasso (Oporto, Portugal), Rens Christiaan Verhoef (Ringkobing, Denmark), Gurmukh Singh (Skjern, Denmark) and Dave Dent (Alderholt, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine blade having a length of at least 100 meters comprising: a root end (and a tip end, the blade extending in a spanwise direction from the root end to the tip end, the root end having a substantially circular profile with a root end diameter, and a profile of the blade transitioning into a lift generating profile mov...