ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,329, issued on May 26, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Elevator sill clearance protection device and elevator car" was invented by Xingang Gou (Tianjin, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator sill clearance protection device includes a baffle plate arranged adjacent to an elevator car door sill and configured to be in a first position when an elevator car door is closed, and to be in a second position when the elevator car door is opened so as to at least partially reduce a clearance between the elevator car door sill and a landing door sill; and an actuator arranged in an elevator car and connected t...