US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Sept. 30 for "Method for exchanging an up-tower main component of an off-shore wind turbine" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,033, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Method for exchanging an up-tower main component of an off-shore wind turbine" was invented by Adrian Botwright (Sabro, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide an improved and cost-efficient method for performing an exchange of up-tower main components on an off-shore wind turbine a method is disclosed in during which a non-permanent service platform is temporarily coupled to a wind turbine tower lower section. In addition, a wind turbine structure and a system including such a structure are described, the wind turbine structur...