US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on May 27 for "Jointed wind turbine rotor blade with chord-wise extending pin bushings designed to minimize chord-wise gap" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,030, issued on May 27, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Jointed wind turbine rotor blade with chord-wise extending pin bushings designed to minimize chord-wise gap" was invented by Jon Stuart Wright (Greenville, S.C.), Andrew Mitchell Rodwell (Greenville, S.C.), Scott Jacob Huth (Greenville, S.C.), Scott Iverson Shillig (Greenville, S.C.), Rohit Agarwal (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Ashley Simone Wilford (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade includes first and second blade segments extending in opposite directions from a chord-wise joint. The first blade segment includes a beam...