ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,714, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Fluid convey tubing system for wind turbine rotor blade" was invented by Claus Burchardt (Gistrup, Denmark) and Mogens Nielsen (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of manufacturing at least a portion of rotor blade for a wind turbine, the method including: casting at least a portion of an rotor blade outer surface using a casting material thereby at least partially embedding at least one fluid convey tube into the casting material, the fluid convey tube being provided for conveying fluid into or out of a de...