US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Oct. 21 for "System and method for repairing leading edge damage on a wind turbine blade" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,952, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"System and method for repairing leading edge damage on a wind turbine blade" was invented by Ivar J. B. K. Jensen (Hornslet, Denmark), Christian Skov (Videbaek, Denmark), Claus Engholm Nielsen (Ringkobing, Denmark), Rasmus Sole Norgaard (Skanderborg, Denmark) and Aksel Petersen (Ringkobing, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repair device and method for repairing damage around the leading edge of a wind turbine blade (20) are provided. The repair device includes a robotic maintenance device (40) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (62) that ...