US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on July 28 for "Reinforced fabric elevator belt with improved internal wear resistance" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,127, issued on July 28, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Reinforced fabric elevator belt with improved internal wear resistance" was invented by Scott Alan Eastman (Glastonbury, Conn.), Daniel A. Mosher (Glastonbury, Conn.), Wenping Zhao (Glastonbury, Conn.), John P. Wesson (West Hartford, Conn.) and Brad Guilani (Woodstock Valley, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt for suspending and/or driving an elevator car includes a plurality of tension elements extending longitudinally along a length of the belt, at least one tension element of the plurality of tension elements having one or more tension element...