ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,655, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).
"Flange" was invented by Jacobus Klaassen (Voorburg, Netherlands) and Erwin de Jong (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flange is provided for connection to a complementary flange, and wherein the flange includes an annular connection face to lie against a complementary annular connection face of the complementary flange; a first body section with a primary bolt circle including an annular arrangement of inclined openings to receive a set of fasteners for connecting the flange to the complementary flange and a second bod...