US Patent Issued to TK Elevator on July 14 for "Slack condition monitoring system for an elevator suspension member" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,696, issued on July 14, was assigned to TK Elevator Corp. (Atlanta).

"Slack condition monitoring system for an elevator suspension member" was invented by Jordan Strother (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a slack monitoring system for an elevator system. The slack monitoring system includes at least one processor and a shackle assembly. The shackle assembly includes a first planar member, a second planar member, at least one biasing member, a first conductive member, and a second conductive member. An electric circuit is defined by the first conductive member, the second con...