US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on May 12 for "Elevator position measurement system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,885, issued on May 12, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator position measurement system" was invented by Ergun Alkan (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system includes an elevator car, an elongate tension member operably connected to the elevator car and configured to move the elevator car, and an elevator car position measurement system. The elevator car position measurement system includes a pulse generator configured to transmit a pulse along the elongate tension member; and a detector unit configured to receive the pulse from the pulse generator after the pulse has been transmitted along...