US Patent Issued to Hitachi on April 8 for "In-building traffic prediction system and elevator boarding place layout generation method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for storing program for in-building traffic prediction system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,711, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"In-building traffic prediction system and elevator boarding place layout generation method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for storing program for in-building traffic prediction system" was invented by Masayasu Fujiwara (Tokyo), Takamichi Hoshino (Tokyo), Satoru Toriyabe (Tokyo), Takahiro Hatori (Tokyo) and Wataru Toriumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By using, as input, elevator specification information including at least sizes, quantity, and service floors of a plurality of elevators, a method for installing the plurality of elevators is c...