US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on June 17 for "Water detection in elevator pit using pit sensors" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,916, issued on June 17, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Water detection in elevator pit using pit sensors" was invented by Ankit Anand Gupta (Uttar Pradesh, India), Stella M. Oggianu (Farmington, Conn.) and Dinesh Selvaraj (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting water within a pit of an elevator shaft including: detecting water within a pit of an elevator shaft using a water sensor; wirelessly transmitting a notification to a controller; and transmitting the notification to a computing device."

The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2019, under Application No. 16/575,765.

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