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Michael J. Tracey — 33 Patents

OEOtis Elevator: 33 patents #29 of 1,840Top 2%
Cromwell, CT: #5 of 129 inventorsTop 4%
Connecticut: #972 of 34,797 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Michael J. Tracey has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Otis Elevator. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in August 2025. Michael J. Tracey ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Michael J. Tracey in Cromwell, CT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2021.peak 61997: 2 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 2 patents19992002: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122020: 3 patents2021: 6 patents20212022: 5 patents2023: 6 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12378095 System and method of unlocking and opening multiple panel elevator doors James Chmiel 2025-08-05
12091283 Elevator door astragal Colette Ruden 2024-09-17
11845631 Synchronizing assembly for elevator door and elevator Zhiren Liu, Meihong Mao, Yunbin Cai, Jinkoo Lee 2023-12-19
11795033 Elevator car door interlock Richard E. Kulak 2023-10-24
11760604 Versatile elevator door interlock assembly 2023-09-19
11661315 Monitoring system, elevator door system having monitoring system, and method Richard E. Kulak 2023-05-30
11655122 Elevator door in interlock assembly Richard E. Kulak 2023-05-23
11572251 Elevator door sensor fusion, fault detection, and service notification Walter Thomas Schmidt, Abdelilah Sakti 2023-02-07
11440774 Elevator roping sway damper assembly Cuauhtemoc Castro Inzunza, Patricia Derwinski 2022-09-13
11390487 Automated elevator safety chain diagnosis Leslie C. Watterson 2022-07-19
11390492 Method and assembly for positioning an elevator door interlock Erik Khzouz 2022-07-19
11254542 Car door interlock Richard E. Kulak 2022-02-22
11247872 Elevator car door interlock Richard E. Kulak 2022-02-15
11124389 Elevator car door interlock Richard E. Kulak 2021-09-21
11072515 Automated elevator maintenance mode initiation Tadeusz Pawel Witczak 2021-07-27
11046557 Elevator door interlock assembly Richard E. Kulak 2021-06-29
11040858 Elevator door interlock assembly Richard E. Kulak 2021-06-22
11034548 Elevator door interlock assembly Richard E. Kulak 2021-06-15
10882720 Elevator car door interlock Richard E. Kulak 2021-01-05
10837215 Zone object detection system for elevator system Walter Thomas Schmidt, Enrico Manes, Norbert Antony Murray Hootsmans 2020-11-17
10710843 Car door interlock with sill lock Richard E. Kulak 2020-07-14
10569994 Monitoring system, elevator door system having monitoring system, and method Richard E. Kulak 2020-02-25
8272481 Guide assembly for at least one elevator door Richard E. Kulak 2012-09-25
7650970 Elevator door lock sensor device including proximity sensor elements in a selected geometric pattern Muhidin A. Lelic, Pei-Yuan Peng, Bryan Robert Siewert, Jacek F. Gieras, Thomas Malone 2010-01-26 $26,206,000
7543686 Elevator with rollers having selectively variable hardness Richard E. Kulak 2009-06-09 $99,685,000