US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Sept. 29 for "Elevator system configured to perform a self diagnosis and method of operating the elevator system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,134, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator system configured to perform a self diagnosis and method of operating the elevator system" was invented by Pradeep Miriyala (Hyderabad, India) and Abhinav Dhar (Lucknow, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system having elevator cars in a building, the system having: a first elevator car of the elevator cars configured to execute a self-diagnostic routine, wherein the first elevator car is configured to: instruct a subset of the elevator cars to enter an idle mode and analyze data shared by the first elevator car; process the opera...