US Patent Issued to INVENTIO on Aug. 25 for "Protective roof with an adjustable width and depth for installing in an elevator shaft" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,738, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Protective roof with an adjustable width and depth for installing in an elevator shaft" was invented by Lukas Christen (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Samuel Ulmer (Lucerne, Switzerland), Stefan Weber (Niederwil AG, Switzerland) and Gabriele Bizzozero (Gisikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective roof device for installation in an elevator shaft includes: a protective roof support that can be installed in the elevator shaft at different longitudinal positions; a protective roof supported by the support for catching falling objects and having ...