ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,690, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LM WIND POWER BLADES S.A.S (Cherbourg en Contentin, France) and LM WIND POWER A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Root end assembly for manufacturing a wind turbine blade" was invented by Henrik Barslev (Cherbourg en Contentin, France) and Morten Dall Iversen (Kolding, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a root end assembly (100) for incorporating a plurality of fastening members (74) into the root end of a wind turbine blade shell part during a moulding operation. The root end assembly (100) comprises a mounting plate (70) with a plurality of apertures (72) and a plura...