US Patent Issued to Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland on April 29 for "Method and device for connecting a blade of a wind turbine to a hub" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,957, issued on April 29, was assigned to Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland SE (Leiden, Netherlands).

"Method and device for connecting a blade of a wind turbine to a hub" was invented by Paul Antonius Alphonsus Geene (Leiden, Netherlands), Roland De Vos (Leiden, Netherlands) and Robert Marc Aarts (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a blade positioning system configured for positioning wind turbine blades at a hub of a nacelle of a wind turbine from an installation vessel at an offshore location, the blade positioning system comprising: the installation vessel comprising: -at least on...