ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,718, issued on June 17, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).
"Wind turbine with auxiliary units" was invented by Torben Ladegaard Baun (Skodstrup, Denmark) and Jens Demtroder (Ronde, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine comprising, a tower, a nacelle mounted on the tower, and a rotor for harvesting wind energy by rotation of the rotor about a rotor axis extending in a vertical center plane. The nacelle comprises a main unit and two auxiliary units each housing a first and a second operative component. To obtain a combination of reuse of components and a good weight distribution, the first ope...