US Patent Issued to LM WIND POWER on July 22 for "Wind turbine blade with dampening of edgewise vibrations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,225, issued on July 22, was assigned to LM WIND POWER A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Wind turbine blade with dampening of edgewise vibrations" was invented by Andreas Herrig (Salzbergen, Germany) and Benjamin Patrick Hallissy (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to dampening of predominantly edgewise vibrations in a wind turbine blade. This is achieved by a wind turbine blade comprising one or more bump airfoil sections, each bump airfoil section being characterised in that for any airfoil within the bump airfoil section, the airfoil's pressure side profile yp has particular geometric properties ...