US Patent Issued to LM WIND POWER on July 8 for "Device and method for mitigating vibrations in wind turbine blades" (Danish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,236, issued on July 8, was assigned to LM WIND POWER A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Device and method for mitigating vibrations in wind turbine blades" was invented by Marc Canal Vila (Barcelona, Spain) and Jesper Madsen (Lunderskob, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to devices for wind turbine blades and methods for reducing vibrations in wind turbines with a rotor in standstill. A device comprises a portion configured to protrude beyond a leading edge of a wind turbine blade in a local chordwise direction. The portion configured to protrude beyond the leading edge is configured to at least partially for...