US Patent Issued to INVENTIO on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for determining the position of an elevator car of an elevator installation" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,780, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Method and system for determining the position of an elevator car of an elevator installation" was invented by Raphael Bitzi (Lucerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining the position of an elevator car movable in a shaft of an elevator installation capture images of shaft components and/or shaft equipment serving other functions using an image capture unit on the car. A current image is compared with at least one stored comparison image of the components and/or equipment in a travel direction of the car to determin...