US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Occupant-based intelligent elevator actions" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,259, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Occupant-based intelligent elevator actions" was invented by Gregory M. J. H. Tkaczyk (Mississauga, Canada), Adam Lee Griffin (Cohasset, Minn.) and Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for occupant-based elevator actions are provided. The method identifies a set of subjects approaching a set of elevators to generate a set of identities for the set of subjects. A set of initial priority statuses are generated for the set of subjects. Based on the set of identities an...