US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on June 24 for "Shear web for a wind turbine blade and method of making same" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,787, issued on June 24, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Shear web for a wind turbine blade and method of making same" was invented by Stephen Randall (Cowes, Great Britain) and Jeremy Haight (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shear web for a wind turbine blade includes a lower flange, an upper flange and a web structure extending between the lower and upper flanges, wherein at least one of the lower flange, upper flange, and the web structure includes an open lattice structure having a plurality of elongate fibrous composite spindles intersecting each other at multiple nodes of the structure...