US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on June 23 for "Elevator car space allocation based on detecting voices of potential passengers" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,353, issued on June 23, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator car space allocation based on detecting voices of potential passengers" was invented by Harrison Daniels (Avon, Conn.), Arthur Hsu (South Glastonbury, Conn.) and Stephen Richard Nichols (Plantsville, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative example embodiment of a device includes an elevator passenger interface configured to allow a passenger to place a call for elevator service by indicating at least one of an intended destination and an intended direction. The elevator passenger interface includes at least one sound detector. A proc...