US Patent Issued to INVENTIO on Jan. 13 for "Method and arrangement for determining a current precise position of an elevator car in an elevator hoistway" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,468, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Method and arrangement for determining a current precise position of an elevator car in an elevator hoistway" was invented by Valerio Villa (Colverde, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and position determining arrangement determine a current precise position of an elevator car driven by a drive engine along a hoistway. An encoder cooperating with the drive engine provides a first signal indicating with a high precision the position of the car within a partial hoistway range extending along a fraction of the entire car travel path. A rough posit...