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Michael Garfinkel — 13 Patents

OEOtis Elevator: 13 patents #115 of 1,840Top 7%
Town of West Hartford, CT: #104 of 885 inventorsTop 15%
Connecticut: #3,503 of 34,797 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Michael Garfinkel has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Otis Elevator. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in August 2025. Michael Garfinkel ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Michael Garfinkel in Town of West Hartford, CT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 41996: 2 patents19962016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents20172018: 4 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents20202025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12384655 Electrical power transmission to elevator system cars Enrico Manes, Atsushi Yamada, Suman Dwari, Craig Drew Bogli, Stephen Savulak +1 more 2025-08-12
10538412 Brake operation management in elevators Amir Lotfi, Randall Keith Roberts, Ronnie E. Thebeau, Edward Piedra, Dennis Hanvey +1 more 2020-01-21
10315884 Automatic determination of elevator user's current location and next destination with mobile device technology Paul A. Simcik, Ashley Chapman, Bradley Armand Scoville, Eric C. Peterson 2019-06-11
10252879 Brake operation management in elevators Amir Lotfi, Randall Keith Roberts, Ronnie E. Thebeau, Edward Piedra, Dennis Hanvey +1 more 2019-04-09
10116635 Mobile-based equipment service system using encrypted code offloading Devu Manikantan Shila, Arthur T. Grondine, Teems E. Lovett 2018-10-30
10046948 Variable elevator assignment Theresa M. Christy, Jannah A. Stanley, Harold Terry 2018-08-14
9995711 Calibration of wear detection system Daryl J. Marvin 2018-06-12
9969597 Elevator communication gateway Brian Beloin, Luis C. Encinas Carreno, Derk Oscar Pahlke 2018-05-15
9791009 Brake torque monitoring and health assessment James L. Hubbard, Juan Antonio Illan, Robert D. Shepherd 2017-10-17
9618409 Temperature compensation for monitoring a load bearing member Peter Keyo, Peter Liaskas 2017-04-11
9296591 Determining elevator car position using bi-stable sensors Ronnie E. Thebeau, Leslie C. Watterson, Sucheol Lee, Kensaku Yamane 2016-03-29
5567931 Variable beam detection using a dynamic detection threshold Brian Amend 1996-10-22 $8,768,000
5509505 Arrangement for detecting elevator car position Rudolph Steger, Chester J. Slabinski 1996-04-23 $8,851,000

Frequent Collaborators

Ronnie E. Thebeau4 shared
Edward Piedra2 shared
Dennis Hanvey2 shared
Randall Keith Roberts2 shared
Daniel Rush2 shared
Amir Lotfi2 shared

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