US Patent Issued on Sept. 23 for "Systems, assemblies, components, and methods for removing inground utility poles" (Mississippi, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,831, issued on Sept. 23.

"Systems, assemblies, components, and methods for removing inground utility poles" was invented by Denton L. Jackson III (Coldwater, Miss.) and Todd A. Egan (North Palm Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electric power industry has long standing practices for removal of aged and damaged utility power poles, which are not only time consuming, but unsafe for workers. To address this, the present inventors devised better methods, some of which entail cutting off the top portion of an inground utility pole to produce a pole butt, rotating the inground pole butt about its vertical axis to free the pol...