US Patent Issued to Altec Industries on March 18 for "Truck body assembly and methods of making and using same" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,184, issued on March 18, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Truck body assembly and methods of making and using same" was invented by Ryan J. McKinney (Parkville, Mo.), Austin Graham (Saint Joseph, Mo.) and Kyle E. Hoffmann (Saint Joseph, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for utility truck bodies having metal and/or composite reinforcement(s) and/or foam reinforcements and/or honeycomb reinforcement/and/or wood reinforcements encapsulated within a thermoformed thermoplastic, or thermoset or fiber-reinforced thermoset walking surface floor structure of the truck bed assembly or other composite flo...