ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,995, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Method of repairing a wind turbine blade and respectively repaired wind turbine blade" was invented by Jonas Pagh Jensen (Aalborg SV, Denmark), Jakob Maennchen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Harald Stecher (Skorping, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of repairing a wind turbine blade including a resin containing a cleavable functional group is provided, the method including applying an acidic aqueous liquid including an acid to a portion of a surface of the wind turbine blade, heating the portion of the surface of the wind turbine bl...