US Patent Issued to INVENTIO on May 5 for "Bridge device and method for elevator" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,654, issued on May 5, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Bridge device and method for elevator" was invented by Ulhas Shinde (Pune Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge device and a bridging method are used to monitor an elevator. The bridge device includes a jumper for bridging an electric element of the elevator when the elevator works in a first operating mode, a monitoring means monitoring the jumper, and an alarm unit that generates an alarm signal if the monitoring means determines that the element has been bridged by the jumper longer than a predefined time period when the elevator is ope...