US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Oct. 7 for "Beam climber active brake health monitoring system" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,943, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Beam climber active brake health monitoring system" was invented by Randy Roberts (Hebron, Conn.), Edward Piedra (Chicopee, Mass.), Sam Thieu Wong (Bridgeport, Conn.) and James L. Hubbard (Kensington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system including: an elevator car configured to travel through an elevator shaft; a first guide beam extending vertically through the elevator shaft, the first guide beam including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a beam climber system configured to move the elevator car through t...