ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,249, issued on April 15, was assigned to GREEN POWER BY ACCELERATED FLOW RESEARCH LLC (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Wind-speed accelerating wind turbine" was invented by Souichirou Asai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kunimitsu Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Norio Seitoku (Saitama, Japan), Yasutaka Yoshiba (Chiba, Japan) and Kouji Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind-speed accelerating wind turbine has the wind turbine installed in the nacelle, the nacelle has a front nacelle member having a cross-section area formed so as to linearly or curvilinearly contract from a wind inlet to an installed position of the wind turbine and has a rear na...