ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,992, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus for elevator" was invented by Akira Fumiya (Tokyo) and Takahide Hirai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control apparatus for an elevator that can control the operation of the elevator in a suitable manner when a user is not a pedestrian, without requiring the user for a complicated operation. A control apparatus (7) according to the present invention is provided with: a call registration unit (14) that registers a call for an elevator (1) based on information transmitted by wireless communication from a mobile terminal (10) ...