ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,462, issued on March 24, was assigned to WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH (Aurich, Germany).

"Method of optimizing a rotor blade, rotor blade and wind turbine" was invented by Jochen Stemberg (Aurich, Germany), Janani Kumar (Aurich, Germany) and Pascal Weihing (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of optimizing a rotor blade of a wind turbine, wherein said rotor blade extends from a rotor-blade coupling to a rotor-blade tip in a rotor-blade longitudinal direction with a rotor-blade length, having an aerodynamical profile extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein said met...