US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on July 28 for "Systems and method for detecting a location of a person in a hoistway" (Japanese, Chinese, American, French, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,125, issued on July 28, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Systems and method for detecting a location of a person in a hoistway" was invented by Jayapal Reddy Gireddy (Hyderabad, India), Helge Krambeck (Berlin), Xinjin Zheng (Hangzhou, China), Yuzhen Xue (Novi, Mich.), Koji Kiyomoto (Tomisato, Japan), Arnaud Blanchard (Adon, France), Daigoro Kurokawa (Sakura, Japan), Kazuya Yamamura (Tomisato, Japan), Hideki Arai (Shisui-machi, Japan), Terumitsu Saito (Chiba, Japan), Hideaki Sasaki (Funabashi, Japan), Takashi Tanaka (Narita, Japan) and Naoto Furuichi (Narita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for det...