ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,469, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Changsu, China).

"Method, device, and early warning system for monitoring elevator health state" was invented by Yang Ge (Changshu, China), Benlian Xu (Changshu, China), Jiancong Qin (Changshu, China), Lingyun Ma (Changshu, China), Jianxin Ding (Changshu, China), Fusheng Zhang (Changshu, China), Jiaxin Ma (Changshu, China), Yong Ren (Changshu, China) and Laipeng Yao (Changshu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator health state online monitoring method includes: acquiring parameters such as a position, a three-axis acceleration, an inclination angle, ...