US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on Jan. 27 for "Method of imaging a wind turbine rotor blade" (Ukrainian, Danish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,634, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Method of imaging a wind turbine rotor blade" was invented by Maxim Karatajew (Celle, Germany), Bohdan Kulyk (Lviv, Ukraine) and Lars Holm Nielsen (Noerre Snede, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging a wind turbine rotor blade is provided, which method includes the steps of controlling a camera to capture a plurality of images, each image showing a part of the rotor blade surface; augmenting each image with geometry metadata; generating a three-dimensional model of the rotor blade from the image metadata; and re-projec...