US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Sept. 29 for "Elevator suspension member monitoring" (American, Spanish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,135, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator suspension member monitoring" was invented by Alexander Serkh (Troy, Mich.), Jun Ma (Farmington, Conn.), Shari R. Parillo (Berlin, Conn.), David R. Torlai (Torrington, Conn.), Alper Caliskan (Gien, France), Ernesto Sarralde (Pozuelo de Alarcon, Spain) and Andres Monzon (Leganes, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a suspension member of an elevator system includes determining a condition of the suspension member based on a combination of an electrical inspection technique, a use indicator corresponding to an amount of us...