US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Nov. 25 for "Apparatuses, systems and methods for the transportation of wind turbine blades on roadways" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,351, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Apparatuses, systems and methods for the transportation of wind turbine blades on roadways" was invented by Joris Kofman (Aalborg Ost, Denmark), Ariel de Silvio (Aarhus C, Denmark) and Kurt Jensen (Aarhus N, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation arrangement (10) includes a truck (32) and a trailer (34) operatively coupled to each other for hauling a blade. A separate dolly vehicle (36) is coupled with the truck and trailer. The transportation arrangement (10) also includes a blade (24) extending between a root end (38) and a tip e...