US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Sept. 15 for "Electromechanical sensing and safety actuation of elevator governors" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,298, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Electromechanical sensing and safety actuation of elevator governors" was invented by Ralle Rookey (Suffield, Conn.), Thomas Masayda (Watertown, Conn.), Thomas Brey (Farmington, Conn.), Xiaodong Luo (South Windsor, Conn.), Thomas Girard (Simsbury, Conn.) and Yingxin Gao (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Elevator system governors include a housing, a first pulley, a second pulley, and a cable wound about the two pulleys. A target element is arranged on at least one of the pulleys and a motion sensor assembly is arranged to detect the targ...