US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on May 6 for "Wind turbine with particular combined radius specific solidities along the rotor radius" (British, French, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,027, issued on May 6, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Wind turbine with particular combined radius specific solidities along the rotor radius" was invented by Stephen Randall (Cowes, Great Britain), Andrea Attorni (Cowes, Great Britain), Thomas Potentier (Saint-Mars-du-Desert, France) and Francesco Grasso (Oporto, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horizontal axis wind turbine comprising a rotor having a plurality of blades, the rotor having a radius of at least 80 meters, the blades comprising: a root end and a tip end; a leading edge and a trailing edge; a shoulder between the root end and the ...