US Patent Issued to The Heil on May 26 for "Methods and devices for assembling refuse vehicles" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,161, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Methods and devices for assembling refuse vehicles" was invented by Mark Fraas (Centre, Ala.), Malatesh Patil (Bengaluru, India) and Eric Dale Hughes (Gaylesville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling a refuse vehicle includes coupling body sub-assemblies to one another on a chassis after the sub-assemblies are painted. The body sub-assemblies are assembled from refuse vehicle body components. Each body sub-assembly is painted independent of other body sub-assemblies. After the body sub-assemblies are painted, the painted body sub-assembli...