ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,222, issued on March 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Dismantling procedure selecting apparatus, dismantling procedure selecting method, and dismantling apparatus" was invented by Shingo Hamada (Osaka, Japan) and Syougo Utumi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dismantling procedure selecting apparatus includes a dismantling information storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of dismantling information respectively including a plurality of predetermined dismantling procedures for a plurality of dismantled objects each used as a reference for dismantling an objec...