ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,063, issued on April 29, was assigned to METSO SWEDEN AB (Malmo, Sweden).

"Lining for a haul truck body, a transition lining element and a method for fastening a lining" was invented by Henrik Persson (Trelleborg, Sweden) and Fredrik Larsson (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lining for a haul truck body, the lining including a plurality of main lining elements arranged to extend over main surfaces of the haul truck body, and a plurality of transition lining elements arranged to extend over edge and/or corner portions of the haul truck body. Each transition lining element forms a lining transition between at least two non...