ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,985, issued on April 22, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Drive system for an elevator installation, elevator installation, and method for installing a drive on a support element of an elevator installation" was invented by Romeo Lo Jacono (Gravesano, Switzerland) and Alessandro D'Apice (Adligenswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for an elevator installation includes a drive and a drive suspension for fastening the drive to a support element of the elevator installation. The drive suspension has a rotary joint for tiltably mounting the drive on the support element and an adjustment dev...