US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on March 17 for "Pitch controlled wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,933, issued on March 17, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Pitch controlled wind turbine" was invented by Peter Bottcher (Ega, Denmark), Thomas S. Bjertrup Nielsen (Skodstrup, Denmark), Soren Steffensen (Brabrand, Denmark), Mohammed Fajar (Hinnerup, Denmark), Mikkel Kiilerich Osterlund (Brabrand, Denmark) and Robert Thomas Rudolf (Aarhus C, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first aspect of the invention provides a pitch controlled wind turbine comprising a tower, a nacelle mounted on the tower, a hub mounted rotatably on the nacelle, and at least three wind turbine blades, wherein each wind turbin...