ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,457, issued on March 24, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).
"Wind turbine" was invented by Simon Ravnsbaek-Toft (Hojbjerg, Denmark), Peter Bottcher (Ega, Denmark), Torben Juul Larsen (Roskilde, Denmark) and Kim Hylling Sorensen (Aarhus C, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a wind turbine comprising a tower, a nacelle mounted on the tower, and a rotor mounted to the nacelle. The rotor comprises a hub and at least three wind turbine blades. Each blade extends between a root and a tip. Each blade further comprises a connection point located betwe...