ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,148, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Adaptor for providing an adjustable connection between an endpiece of a lifting apparatus and a nacelle, and method of using same" was invented by Joris Kofman (Aalborg Ost, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptor (166) for interfacing between an endpiece (38) of a lifting apparatus (30) and a nacelle (14) of a wind turbine (10). The adaptor (166) includes a base plate (174) having projections (204) configured to engage the adaptor (166) to the nacelle (14) and first and second side legs (176, 178) extending away from the base plate (174)...