ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,102, issued on June 24, was assigned to Elgo Batscale AG (Balzers, Liechtenstein) and Cobianchi Liftteile AG (Oberdiessbach, Switzerland).
"Safety gear for an elevator system" was invented by Stephan Rohr (Triesen, Liechtenstein), Hermann Gehrig (Munsingen, Switzerland), Sergej Zinenko (Heilgkreuz, Switzerland) and Dominik Helfer (Munsingen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a triggering mechanism for a gripping device in an elevator system, comprising a supporting frame, a triggering element that can move axially in the supporting frame, which has a triggering rod on the end that extends thr...