US Patent Issued on Jan. 27 for "Method and device for determining estimated real dimensions of an elevator car" (Swiss, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,340, issued on Jan. 27.

"Method and device for determining estimated real dimensions of an elevator car" was invented by Roc Arandes Vilagrasa (El Palau d''Anglesola, Spain), Alberto Chiappa (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland), Xavier Guidetti (Echandens, Switzerland), Martin Kusserow (Lucerne, Switzerland), Maxim Pavliv (Grandvaux, Switzerland) and Louis-Dominique Renaud (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining estimated real dimensions of an elevator car by: acquiring a virtual 2-dimensional map of the car based on data provided by a lidar sensor, the map representing reflection surfaces from which laser light emitte...