US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Oct. 28 for "Elevator car mover configured with auxiliary vehicle support for force release control" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,441, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator car mover configured with auxiliary vehicle support for force release control" was invented by Randy Roberts (Hebron, Conn.), Brad Guilani (Woodstock Valley, Conn.) and Kiron Bhaskar (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an elevator system, having: a car mover for moving an elevator car along a drive track in a hoistway, the car mover having: motor controlled wheels, wherein the car mover is configured to control the motor controlled wheels to move along the drive track; and a parking brake, operationally connected to the...