US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Aug. 25 for "Elevator car ceiling access system" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,739, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator car ceiling access system" was invented by Antonio Martins (Vernon, Conn.) and Yingxin Gao (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Elevator cars including a movable platform defining an elevator car floor, a ceiling access panel located in a ceiling of the elevator car, and a ceiling panel access system. The ceiling panel access system includes at least one movable support arranged within a vertical frame member and the at least one movable support is connected to the movable platform and arranged to move the movable platform vertically...