US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC BUILDING SOLUTIONS on April 7 for "Elevator brake device deterioration prediction system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,154, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo) and MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC BUILDING SOLUTIONS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Elevator brake device deterioration prediction system" was invented by Yasuhiro Toyama (Tokyo), Koji Sakata (Tokyo) and Satoshi Shiga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a brake device deterioration prediction system capable of accurately predicting a deterioration time of a brake device. The brake device deterioration prediction system includes an observation unit, a conversion unit, a generation unit, and a prediction unit. The observation unit acquir...