US Patent Issued to AFL Telecommunications on Aug. 12 for "Foldable and/or collapsible plastic/composite utility enclosure" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,241, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AFL Telecommunications LLC (Duncan, S.C.).

"Foldable and/or collapsible plastic/composite utility enclosure" was invented by Dustin Kyle Nolen (Mount Olive, Ala.), Raymond George Thompson (Hoover, Ala.) and Selvum Pillay (Hoover, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid for a utility enclosure having a front end, a rear end, a right side, a left side, a top lid portion, and a bottom, defining an interior. Large reinforcement ribs are on an interior surface of the top lid portion and form a lattice-type structure. Small reinforcement ribs are mounted in spaces formed by the lattice type structu...