ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,733, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Elevator positioning system and method of using the same" was invented by Enyi Chen (Charlotte, N.C.), Yu Hu (Charlotte, N.C.) and Yang Lu (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to an elevator positioning system, comprising: a transceiver disposed within an elevator shaft; a first positioning element; a second positioning element; and a controller communicably coupled to the transceiver, wherein the controller is configured to: determine a first distance between the transceiver and the first positioning e...