US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for providing communication services to elevator passenger" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,603, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and system for providing communication services to elevator passenger" was invented by Pradeep Miriyala (Hyderabad Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system having an elevator car, a controller operationally coupled to the elevator car, and a communication device in communication with the controller. The controller is configured to execute a program, upon determining the occurrence of an alert condition related to the elevator car while a passenger or mechanic is trapped within the elevator car, to thereby communicate with th...