ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,627, issued on May 27, was assigned to NEWTECH GROUP Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).
"Modular wind turbine blade and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Kunlun Tan (Changzhou, China), Lei Cao (Changzhou, China), Gaoyu Bai (Changzhou, China), Yelin Liu (Changzhou, China), Qiuping Du (Changzhou, China), Zhicheng Zhang (Changzhou, China), Yubin Zhu (Changzhou, China) and Xiaotian Zheng (Changzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular wind turbine blade includes a blade root, an intermediate portion and a blade tip. The intermediate portion includes a plurality of modular blades, two adjacent modular blades being provide...