ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,431, issued on July 8, was assigned to Appana Industries LLC (Jamaica, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for adjusting elevator load settings" was invented by Amarnauth Appana Jr. (Jamaica, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adjusting a load setting of an elevator car that includes receiving one or more load measurements associated with the elevator car and determining a maximum load of the elevator car from the one or more load measurements. The method further includes generating a modified load setting for the elevator car based on the maximum load and replacing the load setting of the elevator car with the modified load sett...