US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on May 20 for "Wind turbine blade and wind turbine with a plurality of add-on elements" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,612, issued on May 20, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Wind turbine blade and wind turbine with a plurality of add-on elements" was invented by Peder Bay Enevoldsen (Vejle, Denmark), Peter Fuglsang (Vejle, Denmark), Florian Girschig (Skorping, Denmark) and Jonas Madsen (Tjaereborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine blade includes a plurality of add-on elements, which are arranged on an outer surface of the blade, wherein the plurality of add-on elements includes at least one flexible add-on element and at least one stiff add-on element of the same add-on element type, wherei...