US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Sept. 23 for "Elevator monitoring device with varying wireless transmission power based on elevator car position" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,079, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator monitoring device with varying wireless transmission power based on elevator car position" was invented by Tadeusz Pawel Witczak (Farmington, Conn.), Craig Drew Bogli (Avon, Conn.) and Yrinee Michaelidis (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative example embodiment of a device for communicating information regarding an elevator car that moves along a vertical path includes at least one sensing portion configured to be supported on the elevator car and to sense at least one characteristic of the elevator car. A transmitter...