ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,490, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).
"Integrally formed aerial platform" was invented by Austin Graham (Saint Joseph, Mo.), Ryan J. McKinney (Parkville, Mo.) and Jacob Franck (Saint Joseph, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrally formed aerial support platform is described herein. The aerial support platform is formed from a thermoplastic composite including continuous reinforcement fibers, allowing the aerial support platform to be formed in one piece via compression molding, thereby decreasing the time and effort needed to produce each aerial support platform. An aerial support ...