US Patent Issued to Quanta Associates on July 29 for "Electrically insulated boom mountable temporary conductor guard structure" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,872, issued on July 29, was assigned to Quanta Associates LP (Houston).

"Electrically insulated boom mountable temporary conductor guard structure" was invented by Daniel Neil O'Connell (Burnaby, Canada), Raymond Henry Jodoin (Burnaby, Canada) and Benjamin James Harvey (La Grange, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temporary insulated conductor guard structure is mountable on an electrical insulator. The electrical insulator is mounted on the distal end of a crane or truck boom. The conductor guard structure includes a U-shaped frame having a horizontal elongate beam and a pair of stub arms upwardly extending from opposite ends o...