US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Sept. 30 for "Method of retrofitting a wind turbine with an energy generating unit" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,032, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Method of retrofitting a wind turbine with an energy generating unit" was invented by Thomas Hedegaard Bachmann (Randers Nv, Denmark) and Jesper Kofoed Jensen (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of retrofitting a wind turbine having a tower and a first energy generating unit with a second energy generation unit is disclosed. The wind turbine has been operated for a first period of time at a first tower life rate and has a first tower life expectancy design value. The method includes determining the tower life of the wind tur...