ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,053, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Elevator system with cabin divider" was invented by Hiromitsu Miyajima (Chiba, Japan), Atsushi Yamada (Narita, Japan) and Keiji Hashimoto (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system, having: an elevator car, the elevator car including: a front end that includes a front doorway; an aft end that includes an aft doorway; and a cabin extending from the front end to the aft end; and a divider system operationally coupled to the elevator car within the cabin, intermediate the front and aft ends, that is operational to transition between: a ret...