US Patent Issued to AERONES AMERICA on Feb. 3 for "Method for wind turbine blade mechanical de-icing with a line" (Latvian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,603, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AERONES AMERICA LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method for wind turbine blade mechanical de-icing with a line" was invented by Janis Putrams (Riga, Latvia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to the methods and devices for wind turbine blade mechanical de-icing. The proposed method for de-icing of a wind turbine blade, includes the steps of positioning a wind turbine blade in a substantially horizontal position; pulling a line one over the wind turbine blade; and pulling both ends of the line one sideways parallel to the wind turbine blade. The line one can be provided with a line two a...