ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,123, issued on April 15, was assigned to BESTERRA Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Dismantling method of tower-type wind power generation system" was invented by Yoshihide Yoshino (Tokyo) and Masaharu Takemoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a dismantling method of a tower-type wind power generation system in which scaffolding is not required around a tower body. After climbing on a work bench set outside an outer wall of a tower body and removing a lower end part of an upward-tapering part in an upper end part of the tower body over the entire periphery of the tower body, the tower body is removed from an uppermost part of a cyli...