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Joseph Bittar — 47 Patents

OEOtis Elevator: 47 patents #9 of 1,840Top 1%
Simsbury, CT: #4 of 374 inventorsTop 2%
Connecticut: #524 of 34,797 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #59,703 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47 Patents All Time
Joseph Bittar has been granted 47 US patents while listed as an inventor at Otis Elevator. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in November 2000. Joseph Bittar ranks #59,703 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Joseph Bittar in Simsbury, CT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 1998.peak 101981: 2 patents19811982: 8 patents1983: 1 patents19831988: 1 patents1989: 2 patents19891992: 2 patents1993: 2 patents19931994: 2 patents1995: 2 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 7 patents19971998: 10 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 2 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6152265 Accommodating visually handicapped in elevator up-peak channeling Joseph Bledsoe, Bruce A. Powell, Steven M. Skolnick, Michael Hayes Wilson 2000-11-28 $173,508,000
6038980 Transferring freight or passenger cabs between moving bogies Frederick H. Barker, Anthony Cooney, David I. Perl, Richard E. Peruggi, Michael D. Silverberg 2000-03-21 $31,879,000
5969304 Elevator system having high rise elevator without express zone Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell 1999-10-19 $46,874,000
5924524 Integrated, multi-level elevator shuttle Frederick H. Barker, Gilbert W. Wierschke, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy +2 more 1999-07-20 $49,081,000
5862886 Pretorque to unload elevator car/floor locks before retraction Paul Bennett, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan, Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy +3 more 1999-01-26 $17,469,000
5861586 Horizontal and vertical passenger transport Richard C. McCarthy, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett +2 more 1999-01-19 $21,841,000
5829553 Fail-safe movement of elevator cabs between car frames and landings Samuel C. Wan, Bruce A. Powell, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy +2 more 1998-11-03 $22,084,000
5823299 Shuttle elevators feeding local elevators Gilbert W. Wierschke, Frederick H. Barker, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy +2 more 1998-10-20 $12,465,000
5785153 Synchronizing elevator arrival at a level of a building Bruce A. Powell, Frederick H. Barker, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney +2 more 1998-07-28 $9,410,000
5773772 Transferring elevator cabs between non-contiguous hoistways Richard C. McCarthy, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett +2 more 1998-06-30 $20,094,000
5771995 Locking elevator car frame to building during loading/unloading horizontally moveable cab Anthony Cooney, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett +1 more 1998-06-30 $20,094,000
5758748 Synchronized off-shaft loading of elevator cabs Frederick H. Barker, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy, Bruce A. Powell +2 more 1998-06-02 $14,106,000
5752585 Elevator shuttle with auxiliary elevators at terminals Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan +2 more 1998-05-19 $50,287,000
5749441 Extra deck elevator shuttle Paul Bennett, Gilbert W. Wierschke, Samuel C. Wan, Bruce A. Powell, Frederick H. Barker +2 more 1998-05-12 $15,813,000
5732795 Power and communication for elevator car without traveling cable Richard C. McCarthy 1998-03-31 $17,285,000
5712456 Flywheel energy storage for operating elevators Richard C. McCarthy 1998-01-27 $31,754,000
5695024 Car operated safety gate for horizontally transferrable elevator cab Samuel C. Wan, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Gilbert W. Wierschke, Paul Bennett +2 more 1997-12-09 $10,348,000
5663539 Passenger transfer, double deck, multi-elevator shuttle system Bruce A. Powell, Richard C. McCarthy, Frederick H. Barker, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett +2 more 1997-09-02 $86,542,000
5660249 Elevator cabs transferred horizontally between double deck elevators Bruce A. Powell, Frederick H. Barker, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney +1 more 1997-08-26 $16,768,000
5657835 Elevator shuttle employing horizontally transferred cab 1997-08-19 $13,733,000
5655625 Emergency elevator cab commandeering shuttle Frederick H. Barker, LucyMary Salmon, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy +2 more 1997-08-12 $21,449,000
5651426 Synchronous elevator shuttle system Anthony Cooney, Richard C. McCarthy, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan +2 more 1997-07-29 $12,363,000
5601156 Maintaining communications and power during transfer of horizontally moveable elevator cab Richard C. McCarthy, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett +2 more 1997-02-11 $17,478,000
5564550 Adapting escalator speed to traffic using fuzzy logic Jean-Pierre van Rooy, David J. Sirag, Jr., Bruce A. Powell 1996-10-15 $5,699,000
5480005 Elevator swing car assignment to plural groups 1996-01-02 $4,616,000