US Patent Issued to Cedes on Feb. 24 for "Elevator controller for leveling process optimization" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,344, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cedes AG (Landquart, Switzerland).

"Elevator controller for leveling process optimization" was invented by Christian-Erik Thoeny (Einsiedln, Switzerland), James O'Laughlin (Belle Plaine, Minn.), Klims Saikins (Chur, Switzerland), Martin Hardegger (Sargans, Switzerland) and Martina Kuhne (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The controller according to the invention is a controller for optimizing the leveling process (leveling) of an elevator car at a stopping point for an elevator having an elevator controller which controls the stop of the car at a stopping point as a function...