US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on July 1 for "Relating to reinforcement of wind turbine towers" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,061, issued on July 1, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Relating to reinforcement of wind turbine towers" was invented by Rasmus Bogelund Madsen (Risskov, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tower section for a wind turbine is provided. The tower section includes a tensioning arrangement having at least one tensioning device attached to three or more attachment points associated with the tower section. The attachment points are located proximate to an end of the tower section. The or each tensioning device is under tension and provides radial stiffness to the tower section. A method for assembling a ...