ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,050, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEWTECH GROUP Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Modular wind turbine blade and connection structure thereof" was invented by Kunlun Tan (Changzhou, China), Yelin Liu (Changzhou, China), Jian Zhang (Changzhou, China), Ning Li (Changzhou, China), Lei Cao (Changzhou, China) and Juncheng Chen (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a modular wind turbine blade and connection structure thereof. The blade module includes a shell and a load-bearing beam and a bearing web provided therein. The load-bearing beam comprises a connecting beam, an auxiliary beam plate, ...