US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Aug. 5 for "System and method for manufacturing panels for use in wind turbine rotor blade components" (South Carolina, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,617, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for manufacturing panels for use in wind turbine rotor blade components" was invented by James Robert Tobin (Greenville, S.C.), Andrew McCalip (Houston), Lauren Laurer Watts (Lyman, S.C.), Hongyi Zhou (Schenectady, N.Y.), Huijuan Dai (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Collin McKee Sheppard (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for manufacturing a panel includes a support frame, a first caul plate arranged atop the support frame, a second caul plate arranged atop the first caul plate, and a heating assembly h...