ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,994, issued on April 22, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Electrical insulation liner for aerial lift platform door" was invented by Austin Graham (Kansas City, Mo.) and Aaron Servais (Gower, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial lift platform includes a door having one or more insulating liner layers. The door of the aerial lift platform is tightly bonded to a rim of an opening of an aerial lift platform by at least one nonconductive fastener, such that the one or more insulating liner layers of the door are tightly bonded to at least one insulting liner of the aerial lift platform, such that a comple...