ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,716, issued on June 17, was assigned to General Electric Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).
"Hub assembly for a wind turbine having a spacer" was invented by Hemant Bhimrao Pawar (Bengaluru, India) and Bradley Graham Moore (Greenville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hub assembly for a wind turbine includes a hub having a surface defining a first set of bolt holes and a shaft having a flange having a second set of bolt holes. The first set of bolt holes is aligned with the second set of bolt holes at a hub-shaft interface. The hub assembly also includes a plurality of hub bolts extending through the first and second set...