US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on Jan. 27 for "Blade for a wind turbine comprising means for retaining a spoiler at a retracted position" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,053, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Blade for a wind turbine comprising means for retaining a spoiler at a retracted position" was invented by Peder Bay Enevoldsen (Vejle, Denmark), Florian Girschig (Skorping, Denmark) and Alejandro Gomez Gonzalez (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine includes a blade. The blade includes a blade body; an active member mounted to the blade body and configured to move between a retracted position and an extended position to change an aerodynamic property of the blade; and a bladder which is configured to be connected t...