ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,335, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Control for shuttle elevator groups" was invented by Arthur Hsu (Glastonbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a shuttle elevator group including: detecting an arrival of an elevator car at a landing; determining a time since a previous elevator car departed the landing; determining a fullness percentage of the elevator car; determining an estimated time until a next elevator car arrives at the landing; and determining when the elevator car departs the landing based upon at least one of the fullness percentage of the elevator car...