US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on March 24 for "Tag detection in elevator systems" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,709, issued on March 24, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Tag detection in elevator systems" was invented by Javier Munoz Sotoca (Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system (2, 102) includes an elevator car (4, 104), a tag detection device (16, 116) arranged to detect the presence of tags (18, 20; 118, 120) in the elevator car (4, 104) and a control system (13). The control system (13) is arranged to determine if the tag detection device (16, 116) detects at least one of a set of associated tags (18, 20; 118, 120) 10 present in the elevator car (4, 104) and, if at least one of t...