US Patent Issued to TPI Composites on July 1 for "Universal supporting member for wind turbine blade" (Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,828, issued on July 1, was assigned to TPI Composites Inc. (Warren, R.I.).

"Universal supporting member for wind turbine blade" was invented by Gokhan Sarbalkan (Izmir, Turkey) and Mustafa A. Dalgic (Izmir, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatically adjustable universal wind turbine blade handling apparatus including a rigid frame supporting a base plate and a plurality of adjustable support members. The support members are spaced from each other and include a vertical pillar, a moveable shaft that can be telescopingly extended or retracted, and a pivotable pad coupled to shaft. The plurality of support members are automat...