ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,650, issued on July 15, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Rotor blade of a wind turbine comprising a lift modifying device and method for installing thereof" was invented by Liekele Broersma (Vejle, Denmark), Peder Bay Enevoldsen (Vejle, Denmark), Alejandro Gomez Gonzalez (Aarhus, Denmark) and Alex Loeven (Herning, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade of a wind turbine is provided, the rotor blade including a lift modifying device having at least one fluid jet module and at least one compressed fluid source, wherein the at least one fluid jet module includes multiple fluid jets, w...