Patent 9309091 was granted and assigned to Inventio on April, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An elevator installation includes a car, a counterweight and safeties which are fitted to the car and the counterweight. The car contains an electrically controlled device for actuating and optionally resetting the safety and the counterweight also contains an electrically controlled device with a safety, or the safety of the counterweight is actuated by a slack-line release.