ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,207, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).
"Reinforcement of wind turbine structures" was invented by Anders Skafte (Ega, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the invention relates to a method of reinforcing a tubular wind turbine structure using a radially adjustable ring stiffener. The ring stiffener comprises a pair of adjacent ring segments coupled together by a coupling means configured to permit radial adjustment of the ring stiffener by varying an intersegmental separation between adjacent ends of those ring segments. The method comprises: positioning the ring stiffener...