US Patent Issued to KONE on Aug. 4 for "Eliciting preferences for passenger traffic group control" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,183, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Eliciting preferences for passenger traffic group control" was invented by Yue Zhou-Kangas (Helsinki), Juho Kokkala (Helsinki), Mirko Ruokokoski (Helsinki) and Juha-Matti Kuusinen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to control of passenger traffic group systems. In particular, some example embodiments relate to eliciting user preferences for call allocations for the passenger traffic group system. At least one user preference may be considered when determining a set of candidate control parameters for the passenger traffic group syst...