US Patent Issued to Altec Industries on March 4 for "Spacer for use in precision bonding applications that provides enhanced shear strength" (North Carolina, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,187, issued on March 4, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Spacer for use in precision bonding applications that provides enhanced shear strength" was invented by Ryan J. McKinney (Mooresville, N.C.), Kyle E. Hoffmann (Saint Joseph, Mo.) and Jace Hegg (St. Joseph, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacer-locator with integrated locator pins and spacer tabs for use in joining applications. The spacer-locator provides consistent and accurate spacing between mating surfaces and the locator pins provide enhanced location control of the joining components while providing a mechanical advantage to the shear stren...