ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,675, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Self-clamping cable guard for clamping power cables of a power cable bundle of a cable support arrangement in a wind turbine, cable support arrangement and wind turbine" was invented by Thomas F. Quinn (Oviedo, Fla.) and Nicholas VanDam (Sanford, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-clamping cable guard for clamping power cables of a power cable bundle of a cable support arrangement in a wind turbine, whereby the self-clamping cable guard includes three recesses arranged about a central longitudinal axis of the self-clamping cable guar...