ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,064, issued on July 29, was assigned to Praetorian Renewables LLC (Cleveland).
"Method and apparatus for decommissioning wind turbine blades" was invented by Matthew Bahnij (Westlake, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decommissioning a wind turbine blade includes separating a root section of a turbine blade from a tip section of a turbine blade, and laterally cutting the tip section of the turbine blade into a plurality of separate tip subsections. Each tip subsection is cut along its length, flattened, deposited into a compacting and bundling apparatus, and compressed. The compressed tip subsections are bundled in the...