US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Nov. 3 for "Wall climbing elevator systems" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,606, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Wall climbing elevator systems" was invented by Kiron Bhaskar (Deep River, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wall climbing elevator systems include a load compartment and a carriage assembly. The carriage assembly includes a set of wheels configured to frictionally engage with a wall surface of a building and at least one suction system configured to aerodynamically adhere the carriage assembly and the load compartment to the wall surface. Each suction system of the at least one suction system includes a skirt assembly defining a suction chamber between ...