ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,941, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Appana Industries LLC (Jamaica, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for dispatching elevators" was invented by Amarnauth Appana Jr. (Jamaica, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reassigning a first elevator car of a plurality of elevator cars that includes dispatching the first elevator car from a current location to a first destination location to pick up an occupant at the first destination location. The method includes determining the first elevator car stopped at an intermediate location positioned between the current location and the first destination location. The method further includ...