ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,792, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wind Harvest Intl.

"Method for installing a rotor assembly" was invented by Jeffrey Willis (Omaha, Neb.), Antonio Monge (El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain), David Malcolm (Kirkland, Wash.), Olamide Ajala-Inyang (Brentwood, Calif.), Omar Garcia (Amarillo, Texas) and Alin-Ionut Munteanu (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for installing a rotor assembly is disclosed. The method may include attaching a mast bottom end to a tower, and unhooking a first blade-arm bundle. The method may further include laterally extending a blade such that the blade may be disposed at a predefined ...