ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,586, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TK Home Solutions B.V. (LN Krimpen aan den Ijssel, Netherlands).
"Method for raising an alert in connection with the use of a platform lift" was invented by Dave Trotsenburg (JX Rotterdam, Netherlands), Cornelis Boxum (GV Delfgauw, Netherlands), Maarten Dubbeld (BM Barendrecht, Netherlands) and Gert-jan Verduijn (SC Terheijden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure for raising an alert in connection with the use of a platform lift, in particular a stairlift, the lift having a rail, a drive unit having a platform, a chair (8), for driving along the rail, at least one ...