US Patent Issued to PETRAL on June 16 for "Protection system for elevators" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,990, issued on June 16, was assigned to PETRAL (Brussels).

"Protection system for elevators" was invented by Pascal Delattre (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable element of an elevator like an elevator cabin or a counterweight, wherein the movable element comprising: a top side, a bottom side, a lateral side, a top edge between the lateral side and the top side, a bottom edge between the lateral side and the bottom side, a protective structure connected to the movable element via a shock-absorbing system holding the protective structure in an operating position and allowing the protective structure to move against the d...