ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,384, issued on April 8, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).
"Connection system for attaching a blade access system to a nacelle of a wind turbine and method of using same" was invented by Payam Javadian (Aarhus N, Denmark), Thomas William Christophersen (Aarhus C, Denmark), Balachandar Mahalingam (Coimbatore, India), Joris Kofman (Aalborg Ost, Denmark) and Niels Moller Madsen (Aarhus N, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade access system (24) includes a support frame (28) configured to be coupled to a nacelle (14) of a wind turbine (10), the support frame (28) having at least one connecting member (...