US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Sept. 1 for "Elevator system including wireless power transfer" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,937, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator system including wireless power transfer" was invented by Ben Guo (West Hartford, Conn.) and Hua Zhou (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator system includes an elevator car, a first transceiver supported on the elevator car, and a second transceiver in a preselected location where the first transceiver can wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver when the elevator car is situated in a corresponding location. The first transceiver wirelessly communicates with the second transce...