US Patent Issued to INVENTIO on Sept. 29 for "Elevator button panel controller for providing contactless access to elevator button panel and method thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,132, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Elevator button panel controller for providing contactless access to elevator button panel and method thereof" was invented by Amit Bhor (Pune Maharashtra, India), Akshay Chaturvedi (Pune Maharashtra, India) and Varsha Trivedi (Pune Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for registering a user's request to provide contactless access to an elevator button panel includes: sensing, by a sensor associated with the elevator button panel, a motion of an object pointing towards the panel by the user; determining a distance of the object from...