ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,658, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Method for determining a wear state of components of a suspension means arrangement of an elevator system" was invented by Florian Dold (Cham, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a monitoring device determine a wear state of components such as a cable-like suspension means, a traction sheave of a drive machine and deflection rollers of a suspension means arrangement of an elevator system. The method comprises at least the following steps: monitoring an actual time curve of a first parameter which correlates with the wear state of at lea...