ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,826, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Call registration device" was invented by Akihiro Nakaya (Tokyo) and Naohiko Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration device includes a reader, a specification unit, a determination unit, a setting unit and a call registration unit. The specification unit specifies a plurality of candidate floors on the basis of a two-dimensional barcode. In a case where it is determined by the determination unit that a candidate floor that matches an installation floor is included, the setting unit sets the candidate floor as a departure floor and sets ano...