US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Oct. 28 for "Segmented rotor blade for a wind turbine and methods for joining the same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,939, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Segmented rotor blade for a wind turbine and methods for joining the same" was invented by Aaron Alpheus Yarbrough (Greenville, S.C.), Christopher Daniel Caruso (Greenville, S.C.), Andrew Mitchell Rodwell (Greenville, S.C.) and Donald Joseph Kasperski (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segmented rotor blade for a wind turbine. The segmented rotor blade including at least a first blade segment and a second blade segment extending in opposite directions from a joint. Each of the first and second blade segments includi...