US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on May 27 for "Method of servicing a wind turbine rotor blade" (Danish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,040, issued on May 27, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus, Denmark).

"Method of servicing a wind turbine rotor blade" was invented by Aksel Petersen (Ringkobing, Denmark), Jack Zhen-zhe Chen (Vejle, Denmark), Balachandra Udayavara (Chennai, India) and Soren Bjornsgaard Kristensen (Ringkobing, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first example there is provided a method of servicing a wind turbine rotor blade. The blade comprises an outer shell defining an interior cavity, and the rotor blade is part of a rotor connected to a wind turbine. The method comprises arranging the rotor such that the 5 blade is in a first...