ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,788, issued on June 24, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).
"Wind turbine blade" was invented by Stephen Randall (Isle Of Wight, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention there is provided a wind turbine blade extending in a spanwise direction between a root and a tip, and in a chordwise direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The wind turbine blade has a spar cap comprising a plurality of strips of fibrous composite material. Each strip extends in the spanwise direction between a first end and a second end to define a length of the strip, and each strip ha...