ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,153, issued on April 7, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Elevator car identification and tracking" was invented by Arthur Hsu (South Glastonbury, Conn.) and Brad Guilani (Woodstock Valley, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator system includes a plurality of elevator cars, a plurality of car identifiers, a plurality of location identifiers, and a controller. Each of the car identifiers is associated with one of the elevator cars and provides a unique identification to the associated elevator car. Each of the location identifiers is configured to be situated in a s...