US Patent Issued to OTIS on Sept. 29 for "Detecting a probe request in method and system for controlling an elevator car" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,133, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to OTIS GMBH & Co. OHG (Berlin).

"Detecting a probe request in method and system for controlling an elevator car" was invented by Jan Ruhnke (Berlin) and Felix Donath (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system with an elevator car includes a controller for the elevator car, at least one processor, and a wireless network access point. According to a method of controlling the elevator car, a portable device transmits a probe request, the portable device is carried by a passenger of the elevator system. The probe request contains at least a first probe request data set, the first pro...