ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,373, issued on April 8, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).
"Relating to wind turbine blade root cover" was invented by Niels Martin Henriksen (Beder, Denmark), Jan Kjaersgaard Petersen (Randers No, Denmark), Niels Thomas Bengtson (Hedensted, Denmark), Ole Molgaard Jeppesen (Skjern, Denmark) and Jesper Horsager Nielsen (Ringkobing, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade root cover segment suitable for fitting to a wind turbine blade to span a gap between the blade and a spinner cover. The blade root cover segment includes a first end and a second end and further includes a curved flange for abutting ...