US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on May 13 for "Vibration monitoring beacon mode detection and transition" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,080, issued on May 13, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Vibration monitoring beacon mode detection and transition" was invented by Tadeusz Pawel Witczak (Farmington, Conn.), Craig Drew Bogli (Avon, Conn.), Derk Oscar Pahlke (Berlin) and Yrinee Michaelidis (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a method includes monitoring a plurality of vibration data by a vibration monitoring beacon and determining that the vibration monitoring beacon has been installed at a service location based on detecting an installation characteristic signature in the vibration data. The vibration monit...