ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,109, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zhuzhou Times New Material Technology Co. Ltd. (Zhuzhou, China).

"Lightweight spar cap with concave structure for wind turbine blade and manufacturing method thereof, wind turbine blade and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jun Yang (Zhuzhou, China), Chaoyi Peng (Zhuzhou, China), Xuebin Feng (Zhuzhou, China), Binbin Hou (Zhuzhou, China), Hang Deng (Zhuzhou, China), Jiehua Hu (Zhuzhou, China), Pengcheng Liang (Zhuzhou, China), Jiangang Zhao (Zhuzhou, China) and Manchuang Zhang (Zhuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a lightweight spar cap with a...