US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Dec. 9 for "Method and tool for detecting defects on a wind turbine generator blade" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,681, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Method and tool for detecting defects on a wind turbine generator blade" was invented by Henrik Boas Dahl (Esbjerg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide an improved and cost-efficient method and tool for performing a defect detection procedure aiming at the detection of a defect underneath an outer protection layer covering the leading edge of a wind turbine generator blade a method is described during which a tool tip is being biased against the surface of the outer protection layer while being guided over the outer protection l...