US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on April 8 for "Modular wind turbine blade with lightning protection system" (British, American, Danish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,372, issued on April 8, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Modular wind turbine blade with lightning protection system" was invented by Julian Anaya Calvo (Valladolid, Spain), Nathan A. Brilliant (Arvada, Colo.), Toby Collard (Cowes, Great Britain) and Lasse Lykkegaard (Herning, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine blade having at least two blade modules extending in the spanwise direction of the blade and being configured for connection end-to-end at a connection joint An electromagnetic shield is positioned in electrically conductive contact with the blade modules and extending across the...