US Patent Issued to General Electric Renovables Espana on July 29 for "Rotating unbalanced rotor hubs and installing wind turbine rotor blades" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,065, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Rotating unbalanced rotor hubs and installing wind turbine rotor blades" was invented by Daniel Gomez Mora (Barcelona, Spain), Michael A. Garry (Asheville, N.C.), Jorge Molinari (Greenville, S.C.) and Arianna Abram (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for rotating a locked rotor of a wind turbine in case of an imbalance in a rotor plane of the rotor, comprising: rotating the rotor using an inching tool to apply torque on a drive train of the wind turbine to reduce the imbalance in...