US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Oct. 28 for "Active clamping system for road transportation of a wind turbine blade and related method" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,943, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus, Denmark).

"Active clamping system for road transportation of a wind turbine blade and related method" was invented by Dan Molgaard Mathiasen (Aarhus, Denmark), Joris Kofman (Aarhus, Denmark), Kurt Jensen (Aarhus, Denmark), Maria Victoria Cano Pedrosa (Aarhus, Denmark) and Denys Kotushenko (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation arrangement (10) includes a dolly and a clamp (20) secured to the dolly (14). The clamp (20) includes a frame (30) having a lower portion (32) coupled to the dolly (14) and an upper portion (34) selectively rotata...