ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,061, issued on July 29, was assigned to Aspen Custom Trailers Inc. (Leduc, Canada).
"Wind blade clamp" was invented by Patrick Scheller (Leduc, Canada), John Zork (Leduc, Canada) and Benjamin Christiani (Leduc, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptable wind blade clamp for securely fastening and supporting a wind turbine blade during transportation. Walking beams are pivotably coupled to inner sides of the wind blade clamp jaws, and pads which contact the wind turbine are pivotably coupled to ends of the walking beams, resulting in a wind blade clamp which easily adjusts to the varying cross-sectional profiles of the wind tu...