US Patent Issued to Wind Harvest Intl on Sept. 9 for "Collapsible rotor assembly of a vertical axis wind turbine" (American, Belgian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,769, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Wind Harvest Intl (Davis, Calif.).

"Collapsible rotor assembly of a vertical axis wind turbine" was invented by Jeffrey Willis (Omaha, Neb.), Antonio Ojeda Monge (El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain), David John 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 collapsible rotor assembly and a method to assemble the rotor assembly are disclosed. The rotor assembly may include a mast, a blade, a first arm and a second arm. The rotor assembly may further include a first connecti...