US Patent Issued to Inventio on June 23 for "Position sensor for escalators and moving walkways" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,355, issued on June 23, was assigned to Inventio AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Position sensor for escalators and moving walkways" was invented by Yunzheng Tao (Shanghai), Lisa Liu (Shanghai) and Zane Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a position switch biasing device for a position switch having a button element that is displaceable in a first direction. The position switch biasing device comprises a fastening element for fastening to the position switch and comprises a biasing element. The biasing element is connected to the fastening element so as to be linearly displaceable and is adapted to t...