US Patent Issued to LM WIND POWER on May 27 for "Wind turbine blade having a de-icing system" (Danish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,039, issued on May 27, was assigned to LM WIND POWER A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Wind turbine blade having a de-icing system" was invented by Lars Bo Hansen (Kolding, Denmark), Casper Kildegaard (Kolding, Denmark) and Mark Hancock (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine blade includes: an aerodynamic shell body with a suction side shell part and a pressure side shell part that extends in a longitudinal direction between a root and a tip and in a transverse direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a de-icing system. The de-icing system includes: a number of heating layers each having elect...