ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,712, issued on June 17, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus, Denmark).
"Wind turbine" was invented by Thomas S. Bjertrup Nielsen (Randers, Denmark), Robert Thomas Rudolf (Aarhus, Denmark), Torben Juul Larsen (Roskilde, Denmark) and Mikkel Kiilerich Osterlund (Aarhus, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine comprising includes a tower, a nacelle mounted on the tower, and a rotor mounted to the nacelle. The rotor comprises a hub and at least three pitchable wind turbine blades connected to the hub via respective pitch mechanisms. The airfoil profile of each blade has a thickness being the greatest distance bet...