ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,911, issued on June 17, was assigned to Buildz LLC (Forest City, N.C.).
"Modular elevator systems and methods" was invented by Mark Joseph Bellissimo (Wellington, Fla.), Robert Francis Kelsch (Hendersonville, N.C.), Stanley Clark Beard Jr. (Hendersonville, N.C.) and Jason Daryl Hunsinger (Forest City, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular elevator system has a pit module, one or more shaft modules that are attachable to the pit module and/or to an adjacent shaft module, and a cap module that is attachable to an uppermost shaft module. The pit module, the shaft modules, and the cap module are each pre-fabricated and transporte...