US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator, NIPPON OTIS ELEVATOR on Aug. 12 for "Electrical power transmission to elevator system cars" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,655, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.) and NIPPON OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY (Tokyo).

"Electrical power transmission to elevator system cars" was invented by Enrico Manes (Feeding Hills, Mass.), Atsushi Yamada (Chiba, Japan), Suman Dwari (Vernon, Conn.), Craig Drew Bogli (Avon, Conn.), Stephen Savulak (Woodbury, Conn.), Ronnie E. Thebeau (Haddam, Conn.) and Michael Garfinkel (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system includes a hoistway, an elevator car movable along the hoistway, and a power management and transfer system. The power management and transfer system include...