US Patent Issued to LM Wind Power on June 10 for "Jointed wind turbine rotor blade having improved transitions between varying material combinations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,135, issued on June 10, was assigned to LM Wind Power A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Jointed wind turbine rotor blade having improved transitions between varying material combinations" was invented by Graham Andress Aldinger (Greenville, S.C.), Scott Jacob Huth (Greenville, S.C.), Rohit Agarwal (Simpsonville, S.C.), Amir Riahi (Simpsonville, S.C.), Andrew Mitchell Rodwell (Greenville, S.C.) and Thomas Merzhaeuser (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of joining first and second blade components of a rotor blade includes arranging the first blade component and the second blade component together at an interface. The first and seco...