ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,717, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Wind turbine" was invented by James Kenneth Booth (Brande, Denmark), Saravanan Jayaraman (Ikast, Denmark), Morten Lauridsen Jensen (Aarhus N, Denmark), Simon Vyff Jensen (Torring, Denmark), Kim Gade Nielsen (Herning, Denmark) and Jens Otte (Langa, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine includes a bedframe having a frame connection flange and shaft having a shaft connection flange, which is fixated to the frame connection flange. The frame connection flange includes through bores at an outer first frame radius, threaded blind...