US Patent Issued to Wind Harvest International on April 7 for "Reinforced blade for a vertical axis wind turbine" (American, Belgian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,781, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wind Harvest International Inc (Davis, Calif.).

"Reinforced blade for a vertical axis wind turbine" was invented by Olamide Ajala-Inyang (Brentwood, Calif.), Antonio Monge (El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain), Alin-Ionut Munteanu (Leuven, Belgium), David Malcolm (Kirkland, Wash.) and Kevin Wolf (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade for a vertical axis wind turbine is disclosed. The blade comprises a unified skin having variable thickness, including a first skin section with greater thickness than a second skin section. The blade further includes a plurality of internal beam walls t...