ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,325, issued on Dec. 30.
"Elevator system with touchless elevator call entry" was invented by Jakub Glowacki (Madison, N.J.), John Carlson (East Hanover, N.J.) and Frank Pyzak (Secaucus, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system has an elevator controller system to control movement of an elevator car between a predetermined number of floors of a building, and an elevator operating panel communicatively coupled via a multicore cable to the elevator controller system. The elevator operating panel includes at least one push-button having an open state and a closed state, wherein the push-button is configured to close in the ...