US Patent Issued on Oct. 21 for "Top module and method for closing off an elevator shaft of an elevator system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,248, issued on Oct. 21.

"Top module and method for closing off an elevator shaft of an elevator system" was invented by Raphael Bitzi (Lucerne, Switzerland), Bjarne Lindberg (Hellbuhl, Switzerland), Luca Donatz (Chur, Switzerland), Daniel Rohrer (Sarnen, Switzerland) and Christian Studer (Kriens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A top module for closing off an elevator shaft of an elevator system has a first top module side wall and a top module ceiling, a first guide rail piece fixed by a bracket on the first top module side wall, and a drive unit connected to the first guide rail piece. The top module can assume an operat...