US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 20 for "Wind turbine blade including two lightning down conductor arrangements and wind turbine" (Canadian, Danish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,358, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY S.L. (Sarriguren, Spain).

"Wind turbine blade including two lightning down conductor arrangements and wind turbine" was invented by Michael Nauheimer (Aalborg, Denmark), Sri Markandeya Rajesh Ponnada (Boucherville, Canada) and Victor March Nomen (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine blade including two electrically conductive spar caps, two lightning down conductor arrangements, and a further electrical conductor, wherein the spar caps and the lightning down conductor arrangements extend along a spanwi...