US Patent Issued to Altec Industries on July 1 for "Remotely operated cutting device" (Missouri, Kansas, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,893, issued on July 1, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Remotely operated cutting device" was invented by Robert Nichols (Saint Joseph, Mo.), Jonathan Westin Sykes (Gower, Mo.), Timothy J. Mourlam (Kansas City, Kan.), Douglas E. Frazier (Auburn, N.H.), Stephen J. Driscoll (Brant Rock, Mass.) and Timothy L. McHugh (Bridgewater, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cutting aerial objects by a remotely operated cutting system disposed on a boom tip of an aerial device are disclosed. In some embodiments, a remotely operated cutting system may be operable to translate and rotate in three dim...