US Patent Issued to Appana Industries on March 24 for "Systems and methods for determining elevator loads" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,711, issued on March 24, was assigned to Appana Industries LLC (Jamaica, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for determining elevator loads" was invented by Amarnauth Appana Jr. (Jamaica, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dispatching an elevator car that includes determining the elevator car is located at a first location of a plurality of locations, and a predefined positional count corresponds to each of the plurality of locations. The method includes determining a positional count of the elevator car at the first location, and determining a load of the elevator car at the first location based on a difference between the po...