US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for wind turbine blade production flange trimming" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,388, issued on June 17, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus, Denmark).

"Method and apparatus for wind turbine blade production flange trimming" was invented by Jeremy Haight (Arvada, Colo.), Thomas Brink (Divide, Colo.) and Zachary Bibik (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of trimming a production flange (52) from a wind turbine blade (10) during manufacture of the wind turbine blade (10). The method comprises mounting a self-propelled flange trimming apparatus (60) on the production flange (52) and using a drive system (64, 66) of the apparatus (60) to propel the apparatus (60) along the production fl...