US Patent Issued to Altec Industries on Sept. 15 for "Slew drive system for aerial platform leveling" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,307, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Slew drive system for aerial platform leveling" was invented by Timothy J. Mourlam (Shawnee, Kan.) and William Naber (Saint Joseph, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial device for operating on energized powerlines is disclosed. Embodiments of the current disclosure relate to a slew drive system for an aerial device. In some embodiments, the slew drive system provides leveling and jerk mitigation to an aerial platform of the aerial device. Various sensors may be disposed on an aerial device boom, on the slew drive, and on the aerial platform, ...