ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,390, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ELEVATOR SAFETY COMPANY (Owings Mills, Md.).
"Elevator guide" was invented by Andrew James Laughton (Ellicott City, Md.) and Jeffrey Lachica Geroso (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator guide having a base attached to an elevator component, a guide riding along a portion of a rail and a spring biasing the guide in contact with the rail. The guide includes one or more of the following: (i) a guide support member operably associated with the guide for movably supporting the guide so that the guide can move toward and away from a corresponding surface of the rail member wherein the...