US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 23 for "Low speed multiblade wind turbine" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,933, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Low speed multiblade wind turbine" was invented by Sikandar Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine for a region with an average wind speed of less than 5 m/s includes a rotor comprising a rotor hub and multiple blades connected to the rotor hub. The rotor is configured for rotation with a starting torque and a torque-magnitude-profile-over-time. Each blade has multiple sections distributed between a blade root and a blade tip, and each section has a chord length and an angle of twist. T...