US Patent Issued to Inventio on May 13 for "Route planning on the basis of expected passenger number" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,073, issued on May 13, was assigned to Inventio AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Route planning on the basis of expected passenger number" was invented by Lukas Finschi (Ebikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an elevator System with a destination call control device, a first destination call being input on a floor by a first passenger at a first point in time is evaluated in order to determine first call information comprising data on a call input floor and/or a destination floor. The first call information determines if a number of additional passengers are to be assigned to the first destination call resulting in an add...