US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Nov. 3 for "System and method for determining a travel intent of an elevator passenger and providing responsive alerts" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,604, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"System and method for determining a travel intent of an elevator passenger and providing responsive alerts" 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; at least one sensor, wherein, the system is configured to: receive sensor data from the at least one sensor that is indicative of a first passenger calling or within the elevator car; determine from the at least one sensor data a travel intent of the first passenger; and take an action when the travel intent triggers a...